AT&T Peters Mountain Road Site, Virginia

This AT&T site atop a mountain north of Charlottesville, Virginia was built by AT&T in the 1960s. The station is part of the company’s communications infrastructure, and especially the part of it related to military communications. It is similar to four other facilities in the region known as Project Offices. These sites had several antennas, including large concrete paraboloids used for tropospheric communications. Like the others, it also has an underground bunker of at least several thousand square feet, and a drive-in entrance. In addition to its communication function, these “Project Office” sites were reported to have had facilities for government officials or workers to be housed in the event of a nuclear attack. The facility is still owned by AT&T, and is in use in some form. Information about its past and current use is limited.