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“It became very interesting to me that my work would somehow help the war effort”

Jane Puckett Greer did her part for the U.S. war effort in the 1940s, including her work with the top-secret Manhattan Project.

Once the public knew what and where the bunker was, of course, it was no longer a safe wartime shelter for Congress.

If the Soviet Union had attacked, the entire US Congress would’ve been whisked to the bunker at The Greenbrier resort in Sulphur Springs, WV.

My intention was to hunt snakes, and I dreamed of coming home with a beautiful and frightening diamondback rattlesnake skin.

Pisgah National Forest was established in 1916 after the passage of the 1911 Weeks Act; one of the first national forests in the eastern US.