David LaFerney

As I mentioned in my previous post my wife and I went to Nashville for the 4th of July. A guy in the Wolf Camera store mentioned a good place to watch the fireworks was Love Circle Park, so we used the GPS to find find it and drove up to check it out.  The park is really nothing more than a big round flat circle on top of a tall steep sided hill right in the middle of a nice neighborhood.  The parking area is 75 feet or so below the top of the park with a steep set of concrete steps going to the top.  At the top of the stairs is this little brick building with no windows and razor wire around it -

There to the right of the brick building you can see a big green box thing with chain link and razor wire around it too.  After looking closely I decided that the Big Green Boxes (three of them spaced out around the park) are really large type air vents like you see on top of buildings.  Of course this made me curious and I started looking around to figure out what this “hill” really is.  Well, I’m pretty sure that it’s some kind of structure, because in addition to the access building, and the air ducts the flat spot on top of the hill is perfectly round as you can see in this image from Google earth -

It also looks to me like there is only a relatively thin layer of dirt covering the top of this big round structure by the pattern of dry brown grass on top that turns green at the edge of the slope -

There were a couple of other clues that something is under there - 2 big steel access plates bolted down to the ground on opposite sides of the hill (you can just see them - at the top edge right of center and lower edge a bit more right of center - on the satellite view) and you can still see where the drive in access to the project was at the base of the structure in the point of the “egg” in the satellite view. Also the little building on top has electrical service and antennae on it.

Whatever it is it’s been there for quite a while, because there were the remains of tree stumps on the sides of the slope that were 20 inches or more in diameter when they were cut down.  So enough time went by after the dirt was mounded around the structure for some trees to grow pretty big before being cut down.

So when we got home I Googled for the Nashville public works department - which has a pretty good web site for a municipal division like that - and filled out their contact form and asked what’s buried under Love Circle Park.  The form promised that someone would reply within a couple of business days, but so far no news.

Anyway, after a good bit of thought I think that it’s most likely nothing more than a municipal water tank under there.  Of course it could also be a secret nuclear missile silo, or a CIA listening post, or the world headquarters of KAOS. Whatever it is, Love Circle park looks like a great place to hang out and look at the stars with some good company and a frosty beverage.

However if you know, or think that you know what’s under there let me know in the comments.

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