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Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House and Cemetery

Middletown, DelawareSR 299 West of US 131 min readFile amended Directions

A historic site in Middletown, Delaware, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House and Cemetery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. It sits in the archive under dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. Access is restricted, and the file says so plainly.

Archive note: 5 conflicting records
Status
Operating
Designation
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
Coordinates
39.443, -75.718 · Approximate (city centroid)

NPS public listing access field: No. This is a listing snapshot; current arrangements still require confirmation.

Is Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House and Cemetery haunted?

No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.

The record — long form

Appoquinimink is the smallest — the '1785 gift' that's the Wilson built, the 'tiny brick' that's the nation's few. The 'Hunn lost' is the sued — the 'entire fortune' that's the penalty paid, the 'family helped' that's the cause charged. The 'loft hid' is the climbed — the 'fugitives above' that's the worship's cover, the 'Tubman's byway' that's the route marked.

The 'Alston's diaries' is the kept — the 'day books' that's the Swarthmore archived, the 'last member' that's the meeting's end. The 'dormant 64' is the slept — the '1874 to '38' that's the silence long, the 'hay stored' that's the worship's pause. Appoquinimink is the quiet — the 'smallest' that's the size's virtue, the 'still meets' that's the Friends returned.

The file keeps Appoquinimink: the smallest meetinghouse, Hunn's lost fortune, the loft's hide, and the long sleep.

Appoquinimink is the archive's Delaware file — the smallest station on the line.

Why this file matters

Appoquinimink is the archive's Delaware file — the tiny meetinghouse that hid people in its loft.

A loft keeps its fugitives — the file's suggestion being that the meeting's hold is the small: the 'smallest' that's the scale's irony, the 'Hunn's fortune' that's the price paid, and the 'Tubman's byway' that's the route confirmed.

Two accounts on file

Place Type
On file

HISTORIC_SITE

Also reported

CEMETERY

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

Short Description
On file

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Also reported

The Friends meeting—where the Quakers aided the fugitives.

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Public Access
On file

RESTRICTED

Also reported

PUBLIC

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Historic Designation
On file

National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing

Also reported

NPS Network to Freedom

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Research Notes
On file

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 14DE01, source row 279. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened.

Also reported

UGRR enrichment wave 4; VERIFY task auto-queued.

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Documented history

  • 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. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.

    Verified historyNational Park Service
  • Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House and Cemetery is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House and Cemetery's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.

    Verified historyNational Park Service

Sources on file

Field notes & open questions

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 14DE01, source row 279. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened.

"Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House and Cemetery." HauntHunt dossier 0811, https://haunthunt.com/place/appoquinimink-friends-meeting-house-and-cemetery-delaware/ (file amended October 2, 2026).

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