BELAIR MANSION
Historic Site — Bowie, Maryland
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/belair-mansion-bowie-maryland/

The 1745 mansion—where the Ogles’ enslaved worked.

A historic site in Bowie, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom, Belair Mansion is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1745 mansion—where the Ogles’ enslaved worked. It sits in the archive under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.

Belair Mansion was built in 1745 — Governor Samuel Ogle's Georgian estate outside Bowie, the house at the center of the horse farm that produced Maryland's racing dynasty, the colonial governor's residence standing nearly unchanged.
The file's documented spine is the estate's double register: a governor's mansion that ran on enslaved labor, its Network to Freedom listing marking the people who were held there — the great house's history including the escapes the record preserves.

THE ESTATE'S WHOLE REGISTER
The file's legend layer is empty — Belair's claim is the documented completeness: the governor's mansion and the enslaved people's history on the same ground, the Network to Freedom's record of the resistance the estate couldn't erase.
The 1745 house is the file's register — a colonial mansion preserved while its full population's history is finally documented, the estate's enslaved community in the file beside the governor.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Belair is the archive's governor's-estate file — a 1745 colonial mansion whose Network to Freedom listing documents the enslaved people the estate held. The preserved house is the record; the full register is the point.
A governor's mansion that kept its enslaved people's history keeps the whole record — the file's suggestion being that Belair's ground holds everyone the farm worked.

HISTORY — 3 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Belair Mansion'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 record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.
· Belair Mansion is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.
· The 1745 mansion is documented. 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. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 3 cited
· Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01 — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223
· NPS Network to Freedom listing — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm
· Underground Railroad — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad

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