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Date: | Tue, 16 Dec 2003 01:09:49 -0500 |
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Todd,
The U.S. Navy conducted a Section 106 evaluation of the Arctic Research
Laboratory at the former Naval Electronic Laboratory, U.S. Army Fort Rosecrans;
which became Naval Ocean Systems Center; which became Space Warfare (SPAWAR) and
is now part of Navy Region Southwest. The Arctic Research Lab had been built
on a 1915 Army moratar battery, called Battery Whistler and when the CAlifornia
SHPO reviewed the demolition plan, they required the earlier structure to be
preserved. When I was a kid, my dad worked near the Arctic Research Lab and we
got to see the enormous pool they brought to subzero temperatures to test
equipment for polar exploration. I understand most of the archival material was
inadvertantly destroyed by the U.S. National Archives and the artifacts from
that research were shuttled around from one surface ship to another until it got
hopelessly dispersed. To my knowledge, no historic archaeology was performed
on the site.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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