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

[Charles]

... 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