Lucas Cabin

[L Verge]

We have done the Surratt bus tours over the escape route since 1977, and there was no sign of it that far back. I believe that James O. Hall talked with some old-timers in the area in the 1950s or 60s, and they were able to give him an approximate location - which would place it very close to the modern-day entrance into the development that now surrounds Cleydael.

That entrance is not the original one even to the 1970s. Technically, we approach from the rear of the house. In the 1970s, there was a private lane that turned off the main road a few hundred yards past the modern entrance. It was so narrow that our bus could not make it all the way in. We hoofed it from a certain wide oak tree.