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DETAIL VIEW OF THE POWER POLES, WITH BUILDING 204 IN THE CENTER DISTANCE, LOOKING NORTH. - Mill Valley Air Force Station, East Ridgecrest Boulevard, Mount Tamalpais, Mill Valley, Marin County, CA
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DETAIL VIEW OF THE POWER POLES, WITH BUILDING 204 IN THE CENTER DISTANCE, LOOKING NORTH. - Mill Valley Air Force Station, East Ridgecrest Boulevard, Mount Tamalpais, Mill Valley, Marin County, CA
Depicted place California; Marin County; Mill Valley
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS CAL,21-MILVA.V,1-8
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Mill Valley Air Force Station (MVAFS) played a significant role in the United States Air Defense system during the period of the Cold War. The threat of Soviet nuclear and air force power warranted the construction of early warning radar stations throughout the country. With the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent end to the Cold War, retrospective scholarship has labeled contributing defense systems, such as early warning radar, important features of United States military history. In fact, America's first major construction project as a result of Cold War hostilities was, apparently, the system of early warning radar stations of which Mill Valley Air Force Station was one. The National Park Service (NPS) leased the MVAFS in 1983. Also in the possession of the NPS is a Nike Missile Site located at Fort Barry. Together these two sites represent a major part of the air defense system utilized by the United States during the Cold War period.
  • Survey number: HABS CA-2615
  • Building/structure dates: 1951 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca2016.photos.323741p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location37° 54′ 22″ N, 122° 32′ 38″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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