Naval Ops Support Center | Essex St, Bangor

Nestled between Broadway and Essex Street you'll find the Bangor community garden surrounded by some pretty heavy duty (and nasty looking) barbed wire fence all the way around and then some. This isn't because every full moon brings terrifying sentient rose bush creatures who thrive on human skin (I don't know for sure that it doesn't), but rather because the Bangor Community Garden lot used to be the site of the regional Naval Operations Support Center.

The black and white aerial photo from 1997 shows three Quonset huts quite far back from the road. This was a military facility where Naval reservists with specializations in cryptography and communications did...what cryptographers do. Articles from the late 1970s actually tie the center to covert submarine communications in Cutler, and by the mid 1980s the site was involved in cryptography and intelligence gathering. The site was shut down by 1995.

Other than the above dates and general purposes, I know very little about this lost site. Any additional information would be fantastic!