Best Farm/L'Hermitage
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.
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Is Best Farm/L'Hermitage 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
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.
Two accounts on file
NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.
The Monocacy farm—where the Vincendières’ enslaved worked.
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National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
NPS Network to Freedom
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Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 15MD01, source row 314. 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.
UGRR enrichment wave 4; VERIFY task auto-queued.
Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.
Documented history
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.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceBest 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.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceThe 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.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceBest 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.
Verified historyNational Park Service
Sources on file
- 01Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01National Park Service · government · A1
- 02NPS Network to Freedom listingNational Park Service · government · A1
- 03Underground RailroadWikipedia · encyclopedia · A4
Field notes & open questions
Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 15MD01, source row 314. 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.