{"id":3607,"slug":"bunker-hill-house-georgetown-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Bunker Hill is the '34 — the 'pike town' that's the turnpike, the 'stagecoach' that's the Richmond line. The 'Old Gabe' is the closet — the 'under the stairs' that's the lived, the 'fiddler' that's the ballroom. The 'Four Mile' is the creek — the 'entered the back' that's the slaves, the 'cellar' that's the hid.","The 'risked' is the double — the 'former slave' that's the caught-back, the 'free black' that's the conductor. The 'Hopewell' is the church — the 'no slaveholders' that's the membership rule, the 'bought back' that's the freed. Bunker Hill is the tavern — the 'drovers' that's the Cincinnati, the 'station' that's the servants' quarters.","The file keeps Bunker Hill: the 1834 tavern, the closeted Gabe, the Four Mile Creek, and the Hopewell rule.","Bunker Hill House is the archive's Ohio file — the fiddler's watch."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Bunker Hill House is the archive's Ohio file — the closet conductor.","A tavern keeps its stairs — the file's suggestion being that Bunker Hill's hold is the under: the 'closet' that's the lived-in, the 'creek' that's the approach, and the 'fiddler' that's the played-while-watching."]}],"name":"Bunker Hill House","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The tavern—where the innkeeper sheltered the travelers.","full_desc":"A historic site in Georgetown, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom, Bunker Hill House is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The tavern—where the innkeeper sheltered the travelers. It sits in the archive under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Georgetown","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":38.868281,"lon":-83.899288,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"NPS Network to Freedom","current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"UGRR enrichment wave 1; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"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. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"Bunker Hill House is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Bunker Hill House'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. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic site; verify hours and access with the managing agency before visiting; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Underground Railroad","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":2,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}