{"id":3676,"slug":"arthur-w-leverton-farm-preston-maryland","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Caroline County, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, was Quaker corridor country — farmland threaded between the Choptank and the Delaware line where freedom seekers moved north out of Dorchester and the counties below. Arthur and Hannah Leverton's farm outside Preston was one of the corridor's documented stops: the Network to Freedom record holds that the Quaker household sheltered fugitives on the property."]},{"heading":"Farm country cover","paragraphs":["A working farm offered what a town station could not — outbuildings, hay, wagon traffic that attracted no attention — and the Levertons' place in the county's Quaker network is the kind of documentation the listing exists to preserve: not a legend of tunnels, but a family, a farm and a recorded function in the route.","The listing credits the household — Arthur and Hannah Leverton — by name, which is the Network to Freedom's whole method: not anonymous tunnels but specific families at specific addresses, attested in the record."]},{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The farm remains private ground, which is how these sites mostly survive. The file keeps it the way the record does — a named household on a mapped corridor, part of the short geography between the Eastern Shore's slave counties and free Pennsylvania."]}],"name":"Arthur W. Leverton Farm","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD","AGRICULTURE"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The Quaker farm—where Arthur Leverton hid the fugitives.","full_desc":"Arthur W. Leverton Farm is a historic site in Preston, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom. The Quaker farm—where Arthur Leverton hid the fugitives. It sits in the archive under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Preston","county":null,"state":"Maryland","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":38.710212,"lon":-75.907528,"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. Arthur W. Leverton Farm's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","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":"Arthur W. Leverton Farm is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Arthur W. Leverton Farm's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","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}}