I wrote about this a few years ago, but many of you haven't heard of this. Vint Hill Farms was for many years a listening post for intercepting foreign radio transmissions, including some that were of crucial significance during the Second World War. <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Hill_Farms_Station>
After it was decommissioned in 1997 the NSA "sanitized" the property and turned it over to commercial and other government uses. <
https://vinthill.com/>.
The reason I mention this is that a housing development on one corner of the property has some interesting names of streets:
Cray Drive, Osborne Drive, Sutherland Court, Shugart Court, Auerbach Court, Hillis Court, Wilkes Court, Wirth Lane, Macintosh Drive, Sholes Court [?], von Neumann Circle, and Aiken Drive, and Eckert Court.
Last time I visited, I asked the real estate agents who came up with the names, but they did not know. The property has an extensive web site, but I did not see any clues
there either, unless I missed something. I really wanted to know: which Eckert--Wallace or Presper?
Do we have a real estate developer lurking among us?
Paul Ceruzzi
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