Former AT&T "Chatham" Project Office

USA / North Carolina / Fearrington / Big Hole Road, 1000
 military, Cold War 1947-1991, telecommunication, bunker, microwave tower / microwave transmission, tropospheric scatter station, underground station, underground facility, federal government
Part of a system of hardened troposcatter and microwave communications stations that linked US armed forces command centers in the Washington DC area to Fort Bragg, Pope and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base on the Automatic Voice Network (AUTOVON) system. The AUTOVON switching center was housed in a nuclear hardened bunker some 30ft underground.

The site was operational through the Cold War and for several decades beyond but as of 2008 was shut down and is now mothballed.

www.coldwar-c4i.net/ATT_Project/NC01/index.html
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Offices
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Coordinates:   35°46'57"N   79°4'26"W

Comments

  • Part of the World Wide Broadband System, and Switching Center for the old Autovon systems. Terminus for wideband overseas cables that tied into Autovon, and head-end for the Army Command Center just to the south of here.
  • Shoots Wideband Data down to Pope, and Ft. Bragg just a few miles to the south of this point. Part of a network that links up the PACCS faciltiy at Bragg to the AJCC up at Raven Rock.
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