The latest influx of cash will help chip away at the Chilmark project’s current $5 million budget shortfall, and could prompt a special town meeting later this year on the housing proposal.
The barracks at Peaked Hill are deserted.
The contours of Peaked Hill, as viewed from the Middle Road, have changed almost beyond belief, due largely to the construction of the road which winds around its steep sides and has been carved deeply into them. The hill is topped by one of the skeleton towers so largely used for signaling purposes, and is now manned by a detachment of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. The handful of men assigned here, presumably in connection with the tests now going on to prove or disprove the effectiveness of coastal defenses against invasion, is quartered in tents on the hill.
Apropos the observation station at Peaked Hill, where a drive to the summit is now under construction, and likewise the
Work began on Tuesday on the road from the Middle Road to the top of Peaked Hill, the contract having been awarded to R. W.
The section of Peaked Hill which the government proposes to take for the purpose of establishing a signal station represents only a small part of