You are wandering around a museum and you see the house you grew up in, as an exhibit! That must be strange and makes you feel really really damn old!

Well, that’s what happened to 87 year old Isabell Meggett Lucas who was visiting the African American Museum recently and found the cabin she grew up in restored and standing as an exhibit.

The two-bedroom Point of Pines Cabin “slave” cabin has a historical significance, it had housed enslaved people since 1853.

However for Lucas it was just the place she was born and grew up in. She did not know it’s history when she was young.

“I never knew this all would come to pass,”

“Everybody is excited and happy.”

“When I was a child, we’d get out and play, and climb trees.”

“I remember my grandmother cooking and feeding us.”

Charles Bailey, who made his fortune through slavery, originally made the cabin as one of ten in a row. This cabin was the last one standing and was occupied until 1981 by Lucas’ mother.