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Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: Urban explorer ()
Date: February 24, 2013 06:33PM

Howdy everyone. I used to go to Rachel Carson, and while I was there I always wondered what the big silo and two cabins just off school property were. I had a friend who wrote an article in the school paper about it, but all he came up with where theories. If anyone could help me out on finding out what those structures use to be for, and whether they are safe to explore, it would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: A friend ()
Date: February 24, 2013 08:37PM

Good to know I didn't write that article for nothing! Glad to see it made an impression. Also, I couldnt find any property records from the fairfax county website, or the library site, or anywhere. If anyone else has info, I want to know as well.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: boxorox ()
Date: February 25, 2013 12:19AM

Inside the silo was an anti-ballistic missile tracking radar, and the cabins were Command and Control. This complex was part of the unbeknownst mobile ABM launcher system located within the Dulles Airport grounds. The mobile launchers themselves were parked in the woods of the airport property.

The airport facilities and vehicles were painted "Dulles Grey" because it simultaneously served as a military facility - kind of like our interstate highway system.

The mobile launchers were removed at some point in the early 1980's.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: Not a friend ()
Date: February 25, 2013 06:10AM

boxorox Wrote:
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> Inside the silo was an anti-ballistic missile
> tracking radar, and the cabins were Command and
> Control. This complex was part of the unbeknownst
> mobile ABM launcher system located within the
> Dulles Airport grounds. The mobile launchers
> themselves were parked in the woods of the airport
> property.
>
> The airport facilities and vehicles were painted
> "Dulles Grey" because it simultaneously served as
> a military facility - kind of like our interstate
> highway system.
>
> The mobile launchers were removed at some point in
> the early 1980's.

I don't think the Die Hard movies are real.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: it was FICTION you morons ()
Date: February 25, 2013 10:00AM

I still can't believe someone named a school after that worthless cunt Rachel Carson.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: intheknow ()
Date: February 25, 2013 10:13AM

Urban explorer Wrote:
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> but all he came up with where theories.

Those were the extended classrooms where English and grammar classes where (oops I mean were) held.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: Dow Chemical ()
Date: February 25, 2013 11:15AM

it was FICTION you morons Wrote:
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> I still can't believe someone named a school after
> that worthless cunt Rachel Carson.


By eliminating DDT, she has killed millions of 3rd world children by malaria, yellow fever and other mosquito-borne diseases. The lame attempt at covering this up are the mosquito net programs. That's not worthless to the euthanasians that exist amongst liberals.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: Gordon Blvd ()
Date: February 25, 2013 11:19AM

Dow Chemical Wrote:
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> it was FICTION you morons Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I still can't believe someone named a school
> after
> > that worthless cunt Rachel Carson.
>
>
> By eliminating DDT, she has killed millions of 3rd
> world children by malaria, yellow fever and other
> mosquito-borne diseases. The lame attempt at
> covering this up are the mosquito net programs.
> That's not worthless to the euthanasians that
> exist amongst liberals.
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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: it was FICTION you morons ()
Date: February 25, 2013 11:21AM

Dow Chemical Wrote:
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> it was FICTION you morons Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I still can't believe someone named a school
> after
> > that worthless cunt Rachel Carson.
>
>
> By eliminating DDT, she has killed millions of 3rd
> world children by malaria, yellow fever and other
> mosquito-borne diseases. The lame attempt at
> covering this up are the mosquito net programs.
> That's not worthless to the euthanasians that
> exist amongst liberals.

I didn't think of that.

The liberals do love their eugenics.

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you can quit with the bullshit "concern" about 3rd worlders now, thank you very much
Posted by: Gordon Blvd ()
Date: February 25, 2013 11:26AM

it was FICTION you morons Wrote:
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> Dow Chemical Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > it was FICTION you morons Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > I still can't believe someone named a school
> > after
> > > that worthless cunt Rachel Carson.
> >
> >
> > By eliminating DDT, she has killed millions of
> 3rd
> > world children by malaria, yellow fever and
> other
> > mosquito-borne diseases. The lame attempt at
> > covering this up are the mosquito net programs.
>
> > That's not worthless to the euthanasians that
> > exist amongst liberals.
>
> I didn't think of that.
>
> The liberals do love their eugenics.


says the ppl who could give a shit about anybody who would even think to care about a 3rd world country.......

pic unrelated
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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: That's A Bad Thing? ()
Date: February 25, 2013 11:34AM

Why all the hate on Racheal Carson? Do we really need more third world children? I thought we had enough as it was.

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Re: you can quit with the bullshit "concern" about 3rd worlders now, thank you very much
Posted by: Looks like I touches a nerve.. ()
Date: February 25, 2013 11:38AM

Gordon Blvd Wrote:
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> it was FICTION you morons Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Dow Chemical Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > it was FICTION you morons Wrote:
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > > -----
> > > > I still can't believe someone named a
> school
> > > after
> > > > that worthless cunt Rachel Carson.
> > >
> > >
> > > By eliminating DDT, she has killed millions
> of
> > 3rd
> > > world children by malaria, yellow fever and
> > other
> > > mosquito-borne diseases. The lame attempt at
> > > covering this up are the mosquito net
> programs.
> >
> > > That's not worthless to the euthanasians that
> > > exist amongst liberals.
> >
> > I didn't think of that.
> >
> > The liberals do love their eugenics.
>
>
> says the ppl who could give a shit about anybody
> who would even think to care about a 3rd world
> country.......
>

Yeah, nobody mentioned the GOP. You do realize there are more than 2 types of people in the world right?

And your forgot to mention Fox News and Sarah Palin. No crazy liberal rant is complete without references to Fox News and Sarah Palin.

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Re: you can quit with the bullshit "concern" about 3rd worlders now, thank you very much
Posted by: really now? ()
Date: February 25, 2013 11:41AM

Gordon Blvd Wrote:
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> says the ppl who could give a shit about anybody
> who would even think to care about a 3rd world
> country.......

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/1211/Bono_gives_props_to_George_W_Bush.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President's_Emergency_Plan_for_AIDS_Relief

You may want to google George W. Bush and President's Malaria Initiative.

What waas that you were saying?????

It truly is amazing how little you know and how you just don't seem to care who knows that fact.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: Oh Schnap Schun ()
Date: February 25, 2013 11:46AM

Looks like I touches a nerve.. Wrote:
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> Yeah, nobody mentioned the GOP. You do realize
> there are more than 2 types of people in the world
> right?
>
> And your forgot to mention Fox News and Sarah
> Palin. No crazy liberal rant is complete without
> references to Fox News and Sarah Palin.

Actually, since the term "liberal" was used to make a point, it can be inferred that GordonBlvd was making a counterpoint targeting conservatives by using the the acronym GOP... which can logically be assumed to represent the interests and politics of corservatives.

Then again, logic was never one of the conservitard strong points.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: Gordon Blvd ()
Date: February 25, 2013 11:49AM

@really now? so yr Daddy Bush now? ROFLMAO@U trying to prove shit to Gordon Blvd? For the record, I was just talking about you two jackoffs, not the ENTIRE GOP, k? Man, talk about self-entitled. LoLz

@looks - yeah, I know nobody said GOP - you dont need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, son. Now, either you are claiming I am incorrect in my judgement of you in which case I apoligize for claiming you are GOP, or you are saying my guess is correct, in which case I'm not too sure why yr all butthurt I guessed right? So which one is it?

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: really now? ()
Date: February 25, 2013 11:59AM

Gordon Blvd Wrote:
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> @really now? so yr Daddy Bush now? ROFLMAO@U
> trying to prove shit to Gordon Blvd?

Nah. Coupling GB and reality is a known lost cause. The two just don't mix.

> For the
> record, I was just talking about you two jackoffs,
> not the ENTIRE GOP, k?

That is not what your Willie Wonka pic says.....

> Man, talk about
> self-entitled. LoLz

You might want to look up the term self-entitled. Your use here indicates you don't really understand what it means.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: Lets try again ()
Date: February 25, 2013 02:00PM

Oh Schnap Schun Wrote:
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> Actually, since the term "liberal" was used to
> make a point, it can be inferred that GordonBlvd
> was making a counterpoint targeting conservatives
> by using the the acronym GOP... which can
> logically be assumed to represent the interests
> and politics of corservatives.
>
> Then again, logic was never one of the
> conservitard strong points.

A liberal lecturing someone about logic, that's rich. Your entire ideology is based on emotionalism, devoid of all logic and reason.

Of course this is assuming you actually are a liberal. I suppose you could be some other type of brainless dipshit. In which case I apologize for generalizing.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: right on ()
Date: February 25, 2013 02:26PM

Lets try again Wrote:
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>
> A liberal lecturing someone about logic, that's
> rich. Your entire ideology is based on
> emotionalism, devoid of all logic and reason.
>

Seriously.

What's next, a Pakistani guy lecturing us about personal hygiene?

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: Urban explorer ()
Date: February 25, 2013 05:46PM

Well, this didn't go off topic at all...

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: newgatedenizen ()
Date: February 25, 2013 06:26PM

Urban explorer Wrote:
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> Howdy everyone. I used to go to Rachel Carson, and
> while I was there I always wondered what the big
> silo and two cabins just off school property were.
> I had a friend who wrote an article in the school
> paper about it, but all he came up with where
> theories. If anyone could help me out on finding
> out what those structures use to be for, and
> whether they are safe to explore, it would be
> greatly appreciated.


Looks like it might be the Patton farm buildings.
http://dullesonline.info/maps.php

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you do know that we can all read what you wrote earlier, correct? LoLz
Posted by: Gordon Blvd ()
Date: February 25, 2013 06:54PM

really now? Wrote:
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> You might want to look up the term self-entitled.
> Your use here indicates you don't really
> understand what it means.


First off, some jackass starts going off about Rachel Carson like her life was shit. Then he proceeds to pretend he gives a fuck about anyone not white, finishes by comparing himself to George Fucking Bush, and I'm the one not too sure about what self-entitled means?

God, I LOVE this County sometimes. o_0

@OP - I bet when you started this thread, nothing like this would have come up about it, right? Anti Rachel Carson ppl. ROFLMAO!!!!!

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: Greybeard ()
Date: February 25, 2013 07:28PM

newgatedenizen Wrote:
> Looks like it might be the Patton farm buildings.
> http://dullesonline.info/maps.php

That does. Or maybe Bonnyside Farm: http://dullesonline.info/farms.php has a couple of pictures, says some ruins are still there?

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: newgatedenizen ()
Date: February 25, 2013 08:30PM

I always thought these were the Bonnyside ruins... I could be wrong...

[now that I looked at it a little further - Horsepen farm fits better]

http://binged.it/ZFdd3A



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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: Urban explorer ()
Date: February 25, 2013 08:50PM

@Gordon Blvd, You are completely right. I just wante to know what that place was way back when. Me and my friends always wondered, and we still want to know whether they can be explored legally.

At everyone else, stop with the Rachel Carosn stuff, because I don't give two shits(pardon my language).

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WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE!!! LoLz
Posted by: Gordon Blvd ()
Date: February 25, 2013 08:54PM

@urban - dont demean yrself and bother with those fools - that's my job ;)

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: Urban explorer ()
Date: February 25, 2013 09:04PM

@Gordon, Thanks. But, being a teenage lad, cursing is in my nature. I just try of be formal with it where I can.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: JMuir2011 ()
Date: February 26, 2013 05:31PM

Horsepen Farm or remnants thereof, were still active into at least the early 1990's with crop cultivation (corn?) along with small Holstein or Angus cattle operation. Believe that main residence and out-building structures were used for controlled burn training by FFX FD. As of last visit in 2011, property can be traversed without accosting and is easily accessed from NEC bldg. side of Park Center Rd. through breaches in the property line fence. Pond on NW side of property and adjacent to 28 was ripe with fish-ripples and scores of basking turtles the shore edge.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: mannners ()
Date: March 08, 2013 03:09PM



The house

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: JMuir2011 ()
Date: March 08, 2013 06:58PM

First photo is spot-on for former Horsepen residence structure. Not certain
for second pic of out-buildings on the same property.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: Young Curmudgeon ()
Date: March 08, 2013 07:09PM

Dow Chemical Wrote:
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> By eliminating DDT, she has killed millions of 3rd
> world children by malaria, yellow fever and other
> mosquito-borne diseases. The lame attempt at
> covering this up are the mosquito net programs.
> That's not worthless to the euthanasians that
> exist amongst liberals.

Yes, she did lead to many deaths. However, she did improve the environment, and there is evidence of DDT being a carcinogen... albeit very limited.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: railing ()
Date: March 08, 2013 07:44PM

JMuir2011 Wrote:
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> First photo is spot-on for former Horsepen
> residence structure. Not certain
> for second pic of out-buildings on the same
> property.

I guarantee it's the same house. The brick railing was added in the 40s or so.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: JMuir2011 ()
Date: March 08, 2013 09:01PM

railing Wrote:
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> JMuir2011 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > First photo is spot-on for former Horsepen
> > residence structure. Not certain
> > for second pic of out-buildings on the same
> > property.
>
> I guarantee it's the same house. The brick railing
> was added in the 40s or so.


Umm?... thanks.

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Re: Silo & cabins by Rachel Carson MS
Posted by: ayylmaaooo ()
Date: January 22, 2017 11:28AM

Am I the only one here that goes to RCMS? I am a Sevie but that is besides the point, I have never seen these two towers and and silo or whatever they are but I am intrigued. I don't believe the bs about missles and shit but I think that RCMS was built on a farm-ground and they just didnt destroy the silos. Don't know how it got to some random ass house in Horsepen Creek but hey then again it's a public forum what can you expect.

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