Nevada Test Site, Frenchman Flat Test Facility, Well Five Booster Stations, Intersection of 5-03 Road & Short Pole Line Road, Area 5, Frenchman Flat, Mercury, Nye County, NV
Summary
Significance: The Well 5 Booster Stations have been determined eligible to the National Register of Historic Places because of their association with historical events of exceptional importance. These poured-concrete structures were constructed to provide water for general infrastructure to support the nuclear weapons testing program (including supplying water for the support town, Mercury, construction activities, etc.). Today, they provide a link between the U.S. nuclear weapons testing programs and the infrastructural support required by the establishment of an atomic weapons test site.
Survey number: HAER NV-37-B
Building/structure dates: 1951 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Desert Research Institute, contractor
Moll, Von, photographer
Johnson, William Gray, historian
Location
mercury, 36.66051, -115.99447
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html