Back on the market---entire small town in W.Va., (former NSA personnel residences)
This was discussed in the DU forum a few months ago when it was scheduled for auction. This base was closed in September 2015. Somebody bought it but couldn't complete the financing, so it's back on the market again:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-nsas-for-sale-spy-town?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=fa4fc252ef-Newsletter_11_3_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-fa4fc252ef-63422265&ct=t(Newsletter_11_3_2016)&mc_cid=fa4fc252ef&mc_eid=bad45856d5
"...From the road, Sugar Grove Station looks like many of the other small towns that break up the forests in this part of West Virginia. There’s a bowling alley, a car wash, and a hotel. The town has the ability to generate its own electricity and pump its own water.
But Sugar Grove Station isn’t like the other towns. There’s a fence around the entire 123-acre town, and guard booths at the entrance. That’s because Sugar Grove Station was a base run by the Navy and the National Security Agency to monitor communications sent to the East Coast.
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The town has a swimming pool, tennis courts, a playground—even a Frisbee golf course.
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Anyone who buys Sugar Grove Station will have to deal with a big problem: cell phone service. It’s situated in the National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13,000-square-mile mile area surrounding the Green Bank Telescope where electronic transmissions are strictly regulated.
That electronic quiet made it easier for the base’s occupants to spy on transmissions headed to the East Coast......
At Sugar Grove Station, meanwhile, the Quiet Zone means that cell service is all but nonexistent. While the town exists outside of the 10-mile area around the telescope, any attempt to set up a cell tower would require input from the Green Bank observatory to make sure its transmissions wouldn’t interfere with the telescope. Sometimes, according to a Green Bank spokesman, that can be as simple as changing the design on an antenna."......
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