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Photo Tour: Go inside Amherst College's Bare Mountain bunker
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Gazing up at the Holyoke Range one wouldn't realize that they were looking at the location of one of the remnants of the cold war.
Buried deep within the side of Bare Mountain lies ‘The Bunker.’ Built in 1957 by the Strategic Air Command out of Omaha, the concrete bunker was doubled in size in 1962 in reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Once a top-secret facility, the bunker was eventually shut down and handed over to the Federal Reserve who used the temperature-controlled space for non-negotiable paper storage. Eventually even the Feds pulled out and abandoned the property in 1972. In 1989 the property was listed with a Realtor and the current owner’s, Amherst College, purchased the property as a storage facility for their own growing library.
http://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2013/05/photo_tour_go_inside_amherst_colleges_bare_mountain_bunker.html#incart_flyout_living