BLANCHE K. BRUCE BURIAL SITE
Historic Site — 4611 Benning Road, S. E., Washington, Washington D.C. County, Washington, D.C.
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/blanche-k-bruce-burial-site-washington-d-c/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Blanche K. Bruce Burial Site is a historic site in Washington, Washington, D.C., a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing. 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 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.

Bruce is the first — the 'full term' that's the Senate sat, the 'only former slave' that's the chamber's lone. The 'presided' is the wielded — the '1879 gavel' that's the chair took, the 'refused mentor' that's the senior's snub. The 'voted against' is the stood — the 'Chinese Exclusion' that's the dissent cast, the 'Native treatment' that's the condemned wrong.
The 'Woodlawn' is the laid — the 'segregated cemetery' that's the burial's irony, the '3,000 mourners' that's the funeral's size. The 'Register of Treasury' is the signed — the 'name on money' that's the office held, the 'Douglass's friend' that's the circle kept. Bruce is the climbed — the 'tutored by master's son' that's the learning stole, the 'Senate's floor' that's the peak reached.
The file keeps Bruce: the full term, the presided gavel, the segregated grave, and the 3,000 mourners.
Blanche K. Bruce is the archive's D.C. file — the senator slavery made.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Blanche K. Bruce is the archive's D.C. file — the only formerly enslaved senator.
A grave keeps its senator — the file's suggestion being that Bruce's hold is the first: the 'full term' that's the barrier broke, the 'presided' that's the gavel held, and the 'segregated' that's the irony buried.

HISTORY — 2 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine.
· Blanche K. Bruce Burial Site 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. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore.

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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