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Archive image from page 72 of Dahlgren (1977). Dahlgren dahlgren00mcco Year: 1977 Range Operations 63 i Women assisting in range operations during World War II. Virginia about where they would put the road down here. They wanted to run it straight down through the reservation, but we made them put a curve in it to keep it a little farther away from our test area. I remember I insisted at that time that we buy the land 300 yards north of the road, not that we'd ever use it for anything, but if we didn't buy it, it would fill up with commercial hot dog stands, gas stations, etc. Just as soon
Archive image from page 72 of Dahlgren (1977). Dahlgren dahlgren00mcco Year: 1977 Range Operations 63 i Women assisting in range operations during World War II. Virginia about where they would put the road down here. They wanted to run it straight down through the reservation, but we made them put a curve in it to keep it a little farther away from our test area. I remember I insisted at that time that we buy the land 300 yards north of the road, not that we'd ever use it for anything, but if we didn't buy it, it would fill up with commercial hot dog stands, gas stations, etc. Just as soon as we would have had everything fixed up well, we would get complaints from those people about the noise, and fragments, and so forth. So we might as well get both sides of the road and control it; otherwise, we'd have that nuisance coming back on us. That nice one mile we own there has kept us free of commercial business, and saved us a lot of trouble. The people living around the Main Gate have been there so long that they don't even hear the noise anymore. When they put Highway 301 in there, part of the agreement was that the Naval Provmg Ground, at that time, had the right to
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