Nike Missile Site W-25 (Control Area): Difference between revisions

The properties on which the W-25 IFC Area and its adjacent launcher, W-25L, stood were 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 20 July 2022. </ref> <ref name = gba>"Anne Arundel County Police Training Academy", GBA Architects, https://www.gba-architects.com/anne-arundel-county-police-training-academy/. Accessed 20 July 2022.</ref> <ref name = w3vpr>"AARC HIstory 1971-1977", Anne Arundel Radio Club, https://www.w3vpr.org/node/393. Accessed 21 July 2022.</ref> and turned into the [https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=159448517421519&__tn__=C-R 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 20 July 2022. </ref>, and the [https://www.aacounty.org/departments/police-department/training-division/ Anne Arundel County Police Training Academy] <ref name = gba>"Anne Arundel County Police Training Academy", GBA Architects, https://www.gba-architects.com/anne-arundel-county-police-training-academy/. Accessed 20 July 2022.</ref>, respectively. The Davidsonville Recreation Center is home to [https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Nonprofit-organization/BSA-Troop-454-Davidsonville-MD-1687129368193804/ Boy Scout Troop 454], the [https://www.davidsonvilledanceclub.org/ Davidsonville Dance Club], and the [https://www.w3vpr.org/ Anne Arundel Radio Club] <ref name = w3vpr>"AARC HIstory 1971-1977", Anne Arundel Radio Club, https://www.w3vpr.org/node/393. Accessed 21 July 2022.</ref>. Members of the Anne Arundel Radio Club, upon their purchase of what is now their clubhouse in the fall of 1976, requested that the concrete stand atop which W-25's Tracking Radar not be demolished. <ref name = w3vpr>"AARC HIstory 1971-1977", Anne Arundel Radio Club, https://www.w3vpr.org/node/393. Accessed 21 July 2022.</ref>.