[GreenKeys] Speaking of AT&T facilities...

[Duncan M. Brown]

AT&T built a bunch of secure/hardened sites for the US government, that is
probably one of them.  There is a website about them (with pictures).  If I
can find the URL, I'll post it.

  --Duncan


> [Original Message]
> From: Charles <charlesmorris800 at centurytel.net>
> To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: 09-Jan-09 22:41:38
> Subject: [GreenKeys] Speaking of AT&T facilities...
>
> ... does anyone know what that "AT&T" place on Short Hill Mountain
> (Lovettsville), VA is?
>
> I used to own 30 wooded acres on the other side of Short Hill
> directly across the hilltop, and it just showed on the plat as
> "AT&T". The realtor who sold me the lot told me I should not go
> hiking up there because he had done so and found there was a
> barbed wire fence, containing mean guard dogs and even meaner
> armed guards! of course he was a major league BSer so who knows.
>
> One day I got curious and drove around to the other side, where
> there was a large AT&T roadsign. I started up the access road,
> which looked ordinary at first but then had chainlink topped by
> barbed wire on both sides, closing in as I went, and road signs
> basically becoming more and more threatening the farther I drove
> up the mountain. Although I still hadn't seen a building (or even
> a German shepherd) the one that stopped me said "ROAD CLOSED TO
> YOU AT THIS POINT, ABSOLUTELY NO ACCESS" or something like that.
> There was no place to turn around. So I backed and filled about
> three times to turn around in the middle of the narrow road, and
> left with the back of my neck tingling. I was sure I was on camera
> or in somebody's telescopic sights by then...
>
> I ended up selling the land a few years later without having built
> on it, and now don't live in the Washington DC area any more. But
> every now and then I wonder - is it really another "secret"
> location for Congress to hide, along the lines of the Greenbriar
> Hotel that "nobody" knew about (except every local in WV and all
> the reporters, of course).
>
> So does anyone have facts, hearsay or just good ol' innuendo?  :)
>
> -Charles
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