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Nike Missile Control Area W-25, now known as the Davidsonville Recreation Center owned by Anne Arundel County, was a tracking station for the US Army's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nike Nike anti-ballistic missiles] from the 1950s until 1974. <ref name = militarystandard>"Nike Missile Base W-25, Maryland", TheMilitaryStandard, http://www.themilitarystandard.com/missile/nike/w25.php. Accessed 20 July 2022.</ref>
==Operation==
==Davidsonville Recreation Center and Anne Arundel County Police Academy==
The property on which W-25 stood was purchased by Anne Arundel County in 1976 <ref name = militarystandard>"Nike Missile Base W-25, Maryland", TheMilitaryStandard, http://www.themilitarystandard.com/missile/nike/w25.php. Accessed 20 July 2022.</ref> <ref name = marylandDepartmentOfTheEnvironment> "FACTS ABOUT: DAVIDSONVILLE NIKE CONTROL", Maryland Department of the Environment, https://mde.maryland.gov/programs/Land/MarylandBrownfieldVCP/Documents/Davidsonville_Control.pdf. Accessed July 20 2022. </ref> and turned into the Davidsonville Recreation Center <ref name = marylandDepartmentOfTheEnvironment> "FACTS ABOUT: DAVIDSONVILLE NIKE CONTROL", Maryland Department of the Environment, https://mde.maryland.gov/programs/Land/MarylandBrownfieldVCP/Documents/Davidsonville_Control.pdf. Accessed July 20 2022. </ref>.
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