Dossier 3714Historic SiteMedium 68

Berry Farm

Denton, Maryland1 min readFile amended October 2, 2026Directions

Berry Farm is a historic site in Denton, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom. The farm—where the Caroline County slaves worked. The archive files it under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.

Archive note: 3 sources on file

Status

Operating

Access

Open to public

Designation

NPS Network to Freedom

Coordinates

38.879, -75.824 · Approximate (city centroid)

Signal: cold trace

Is Berry Farm haunted?

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

Dark History Historic Sites

The record — long form

Berry Farm is the plantation's edge — the 1,300 acres on the Potomac, the Jacob Shaw escape that left it. The 1840 flight was the documented one — the shoemaker who ran from Thomas Berry, the Oxon Cove Park that keeps the story. The network was the context — the Caroline County corridor, the Quakers and the free Blacks who helped.

The plantation is the record — the enslaved labor that built it, the farm that was the 1,300 acres. The escape is the remembered — the shoemaker's flight, the Network to Freedom listing. Berry Farm is the UGRR's Maryland — the plantation that the shoe maker left, the park that preserves the path.

The file keeps Berry Farm: the 1,300 acres, the 1840 Shaw escape, and the park's interpretation.

Berry Farm is the archive's Maryland file — the plantation with the documented escape.

Why this file matters

Berry Farm is the archive's Maryland file — the escape's starting point.

A farm keeps its runaway — the file's suggestion being that Berry's hold is the documented flight: the shoemaker who left in 1840, the Potomac plantation, and the park that tells it.

Documented history

NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Berry Farm'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. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.
Verified historyNational Park Service
Berry Farm 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 fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
Verified historyNational Park Service
The farm is documented. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.
Verified historyNational Park Service