{"id":3625,"slug":"albert-austin-a-a-guthrie-house-sardinia-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Guthrie is the Sardinia — the 'sheltered' that's the fugitives, the 'Network to Freedom' that's the marked. The 'corridor' is the Ripley — the 'Rankin' that's the lantern, the '21 miles' that's the up. The 'Scotch-Irish' is the abolition — the 'Gilliland' that's the Red Oak, the 'Pettijohns' that's the beaten.","The 'station' is the house — the 'family' that's the risked, the 'slave catchers' that's the raided. The '1815' is the Gist — the 'settlement' that's the freed, the 'Black conductors' that's the ran. Guthrie is the documented — the 'NPS' that's the listed, the 'still standing' that's the proof.","The file keeps Guthrie House: the sheltered fugitives, the Ripley corridor, the Sardinia network, and the Network to Freedom.","Guthrie House is the archive's Ohio file — the station's home."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Guthrie House is the archive's Ohio file — the corridor's shelter.","A station keeps its door — the file's suggestion being that Guthrie's hold is the hidden: the 'sheltered' that's the fugitives, the 'Ripley' that's the route, and the 'Freedom' that's the network."]}],"name":"Albert Austin (A.A.) 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The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Sardinia","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":39.007113,"lon":-83.802101,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"NPS Network to Freedom","current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"UGRR enrichment wave 1; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"Albert Austin (A.A.) Guthrie House is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic site; verify hours and access with the managing agency before visiting; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Underground Railroad","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":2,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}