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The Greenbrier is a luxury resort located in the Allegheny Mountains near White Sulphur Springs in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in the United States. Since 1778, visitors have traveled to this part of the state to "take the waters" of the area.
The bunker is located underneath the West Virginia Wing inside this hill. In the late 1950s, the United States government approached The Greenbrier resort and sought its assistance in creating a secret emergency relocation center to house the United States Congress due to the Cuban revolution and soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
In 2010, the Greenbrier hosted the inaugural PGA Greenbrier Classic. [6] In 1992 The Washington Post reported that, during the Cold War, the resort had been the site of a "bunker", the Emergency Relocation Center known as Project Greek Island, which was intended to house and protect the U.S. Congress in the event of a nuclear attack. [7]
The station was built in 1930 or 1931 by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) to serve passengers on the new Pullman rail coaches to The Greenbrier resort hotel. [2] The current brick building replaced a wooden structure that was built in the early 1900s. [2] It is directly across from the entrance to The Greenbrier grounds.
Greenbrier County (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n b r aɪ. ər /) is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 32,977. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Lewisburg . [ 2 ]
View east along WV 3 just east of US 119 in Boone County WV 3 crosses the New River at Bellepoint. West Virginia Route 3 is a state highway in the U.S. state of West Virginia . It runs from West Virginia Route 10 in West Hamlin in a general easterly direction via Beckley to West Virginia Route 311 at Sweet Springs , most of the way across the ...
West Virginia Route 12 (WV 12) is a north–south route located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of West Virginia. The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 219 in Peterstown , Monroe County , less than 300 yards (270 m) from the Virginia state line.
The Greenbrier Tip-Off, operated by IntersportHoops is an early-preseason American college basketball tournament held in November of each year that takes place in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia at Colonial Hall inside the resort hotel The Greenbrier.