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Mt. Weather near Bluemont In Loudoun County.
“Fear God and keep hie commandments: For this is the whole duty of man, for God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”—The Bible
Just how much of a wonder is Mt. Weather, no one knows with certainty.
A secret government installation, it is ringed with towering chain fences topped by rows of barbed wire with guards stationed at gates. Calls to government agencies for permission to visit bring a firm "no” in response; requests for information are turned away with the admonition "classified.”
Verifiable facts are few. Mt. Weather, 47 miles west of Washington, D.C., at 1,725 feet above sea level, was purchased by the Department of Agriculture in 1908.
Once considered as the possible site for President Calvin Coolidge’s summer White House, it became the department’s experimental weather bureau station instead. Seven buildings, including a large observatory and an administration building, were constructed at a cost of $175,000.
According to a Washington Post report in December 1988, the 85-acre site, which had been used as an artillery range-finding experimental station during World War I, was turned over to a District of Columbia relief agency. A camp there was home to 150 young men who were employed in a “civic construction work program” in the vi-, dnity. During the summer, an agricultural maintenance program was added. A health-building plan including athletics in addition to daily work programs was also instituted. The groups of 150 young men worked only two
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