Dawson forest is owned by the city of atlanta and is one of three tracts of land totaling over 25 000. There were nuclear experiments done on the animal and plant life as the aircraft project was winding down some areas within the forest were subject to massive doses of radiation. Some things did happen in dawson forest in decades past.
Nuclear aircraft labs reactor. Dawson forest 10 130 acres the old lockheed ga. With immediate haste the lab known as airforce plant 67 was built.
That land dawson forest. Purchase a piece of land in the middle of nowhere. This was top secreted and needed to stay that way.
The united states government contracted the aircraft company lockheed martin to design an aircraft powered by a nuclear engine. The dawson forest set. Check the map the railroad went from the reactor the best i can tell about five miles up to the nuclear lab on top of the hill.
The old lockheed nuclear aircraft plant railroad bridge in dawson forest. Though the georgia nuclear aircraft facility has been out of commission for nearly 50 years local residents can still be heard whispering about two headed deer and oak leaves the size of elephant ears spotted around the nuclea. Over half a century later rumors still swirl around dawson forest and the mysterious remnants of dawson county s past in the cold war.
It was purchased in 1971 from lockheed and was the previous site of the georgia nuclear aircraft laboratory gnal. Coordinates dawson forest is a 10 130 acre 41 0 km 2 public use forest located in dawson county georgia southwest of dawsonvilleit is owned by the city of atlanta but is considered a state forest as it is managed by the georgia forestry commission. Atlanta s intriguing former nuclear aircraft site turned nature conservancy by sustainatlanta on april 11 2015 leave a comment a curious map reader may notice an unusually rectangular piece of green land just north of atlanta and just west of lake lanier in the foothills of the north georgia mountains.
The dawson forest site.
Dawson forest nuclear plant map. The georgia nuclear aircraft laboratory also known as afp no. 67 for air force plant 67 was a united states air force test facility located in the dawson forest in dawsonville georgia it was the site of lockheed s lab for investigating the feasibility of nuclear aircraft the site was used for irradiating military equipment as well as the forest to determine the effect of nuclear war and. Deep in the woods of georgia s dawson forest lies the remnants of a once sprawling nuclear testing facility from the early 1950s nicknamed air force plant 67. Wikipedia from just visiting dawson forest most people don t realize that the remnants of a nuclear laboratory still remain hidden in the brush.
Discover georgia nuclear aircraft laboratory in dawsonville georgia. The remains of one of america s first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a georgia forest.
The remains of one of america s first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a georgia forest. Discover georgia nuclear aircraft laboratory in dawsonville georgia. Wikipedia from just visiting dawson forest most people don t realize that the remnants of a nuclear laboratory still remain hidden in the brush.
Deep in the woods of georgia s dawson forest lies the remnants of a once sprawling nuclear testing facility from the early 1950s nicknamed air force plant 67. 67 for air force plant 67 was a united states air force test facility located in the dawson forest in dawsonville georgia it was the site of lockheed s lab for investigating the feasibility of nuclear aircraft the site was used for irradiating military equipment as well as the forest to determine the effect of nuclear war and. The georgia nuclear aircraft laboratory also known as afp no.
