BEST FARM/L'HERMITAGE
Historic Site — Monocacy National Battlefield, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/best-farm-l-hermitage-maryland/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

A historic site in Frederick, Maryland, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Best Farm/L'Hermitage is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. HauntHunt files it with dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 4 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.

Best Farm is the torture plantation — L'Hermitage's 90 enslaved, the Vincendières' instruments that were seen in 1798. The Haitian refugees were the owners — the Saint-Domingue planters who brought the system, the second-largest slaveholding in Frederick County. The 'instruments of torture' were the witness — the stocks and whips that Niemcewicz wrote, the crippled who sued.
The Lost Order was the accident — Lee's Special Order 191 wrapped around cigars, the 27th Indiana soldier who found it in '62. The battlefield was the later use — the '64 Monocacy fight, the Confederate artillery in the barn. Best Farm is the cruel estate — the French plantation that tortured its slaves, the farm where the order was lost.
The file keeps Best Farm: the Vincendière cruelty, the 90 enslaved, the Lost Order, and the battle.
Best Farm is the archive's Frederick file — the plantation of torture.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Best Farm is the archive's Frederick file — the slave village on the battlefield.
A farm keeps its cruelties — the file's suggestion being that L'Hermitage's hold is the record: the torture instruments that were documented, the 90 enslaved, and the lost order that was found.

HISTORY — 4 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Best Farm/L'Hermitage'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 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.
· Best Farm/L’Hermitage 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. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
· The plantation is documented. Best Farm/L'Hermitage'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'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.
· Best Farm/L'Hermitage is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Best Farm/L'Hermitage'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. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.

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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