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Hogan's Alley is a Federal Bureau of Investigation training facility operated by the FBI Academy in Marine Corps Base Quantico near Quantico, Prince William County, Virginia. Opened in 1987, Hogan's Alley is a full-scale replica of a nondescript town in the United States, spread over approximately . The facility is used to train federal law enforcement agents in realistic urban environments that cannot be fully emulated by, or would not be fitting in, traditional training facilities such as kill houses. The "Hogan's Alley" name originated from Hogan's Alley, a popular 1890s comic strip by Richard F. Outcault that centered around the titular fictional slum alley in New York City.
Description
Hogan's Alley is located on the grounds of the FBI Academy, roughly behind the FBI Laboratory. The facility is an open-air complex consisting of several buildings constructed to resemble establishments typically seen in an archetypical American small town, including a post office, a pharmacy, a motel, a fully-operational Subway, a pawn shop, a pool hall, a laundromat, a barber, a jewelry store, a bar, a movie theater, and a suburban cul-de-sac, among other businesses and structures, several of which are named after or resemble locations, events, and figures from the FBI's history. Although it strongly resembles a town, Hogan's Alley is not actually inhabited nor incorporated, and most of the buildings are either prop-filled sets or disguised academy facilities such as classrooms and offices. Still, some genuine confusions have happened: the prop mailboxes in Hogan's Alley reportedly had real mail regularly placed in them by confused postal workers, to the point that the FBI ordered them welded shut to stop the mail deliveries; and a contracted painter working at Hogan's Alley once attempted to purchase a car from the facility's fake car dealership, apparently unaware it was not actually for sale.