Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania
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Blue Ridge Summit is a town in southeastern Pennsylvania, located at 39.72° North, 77.47° West. Blue Ridge Summit is in Franklin County, Pennsylvania near the Maryland border, southwest of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Its ZIP code is 17214, and its telephone area code is 717. Route 16 runs through it.
Blue Ridge Summit is notable for being the place of birth of Wallis Simpson, the wife of The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor.
It is in an underground complex near to Blue Ridge Summit on Raven Rock Mountain that the U.S. Vice President sometimes resides when he is "at an undisclosed location" in case of an attack on the United States. The complex is referred to most commonly as Site R, but also Raven Rock or the Alternate Joint Communications Center, created in 1951 as a command center in the event of a nuclear or other attack on Washington, DC.
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- 'Undisclosed location' disclosed, Boston Globe, July 20, 2004.
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