The West Virginia Wind atop Copeland's Hill was built in the early 1960's to provide more hotel rooms and a new location for the Greenbrier Clinic, which had opened in 1948 offering personalized diagnostic medical care in a resort setting. The construction project also created a cover story for the installation of a secret underground Congressional bunker buried in the hillside. Project Greek Island was the code name for this emergency relocation center, part of a Cold War plan to evacuate government leaders from Washington D.C. In case of imminent conflict, Congress would have reassembled and continued to function there within a 112,000 square foot facility containing House and Senate chambers, dormitories, dining rooms, staff office space, a power plant, a medical clinic, and sophisticated communications equipment. The bunker was decommissioned in 1995.
