Curlew Job Corps campus

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The Washington campus was a Strategic Air Command radar station before the Job Corps took it over. The dish still stands on what everyone calls Radar Hill.

The Curlew campus in Washington state was a Strategic Air Command radar compound before the Job Corps took it over. The dish is still up on the hill above it, which everyone there calls Radar Hill.

That history matters, because the story students tell about tunnels beneath the campus is very likely true. Radar installations of that period were built with them.

A former student notes that the same stories circulate at the Cascade campus, which has always been a Job Corps site and never anything else. The tunnel account belongs to Curlew.

Colville elders hold that the ground the Curlew campus stands on is within sacred land. That is not folklore attached to the site by outsiders, it is what the people whose land it is say about it, and it is the most important thing on this page.

A military installation was built on it, and then a residential training campus for young people. What students report there should be read in that order rather than the other way round.

FAQ

Where is Curlew Job Corps campus located?

Curlew Job Corps campus is in Washington, United States.