{"id":2723,"slug":"chimborazo-hospital-site-richmond-virginia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Chimborazo is the largest — the Confederacy's hospital that treated 78,000, the 9% that was the mortality. The hill was the Ecuadorian — the volcano that gave the name, the Humboldt who explored it. The pavilion was the design — the open-air that's the innovation, the small city that it ran.","The McCaw was the chief — the surgeon who ran it, the '61 commandeering that's the start. The slaves were the workers — the cooks and the nurses, the labor that's forgotten. Chimborazo is the model — the acceptance of hospital care, the advancement that's the legacy.","The file keeps Chimborazo: the 78,000 patients, the pavilion design, the McCaw leadership, and the enslaved staff.","Chimborazo is the archive's Richmond file — the largest hospital."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Chimborazo is the archive's Richmond file — the Confederacy's hospital.","A hill keeps its wards — the file's suggestion being that Chimborazo's hold is the scale: the 78,000 treated, the 9% mortality, and the enslaved who served."]}],"name":"Chimborazo Hospital site","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","MEDICAL","CIVIL_WAR"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"The war’s largest hospital—76,000 patients on Church Hill.","full_desc":"A site in Richmond, Virginia, Chimborazo Hospital site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The war’s largest hospital—76,000 patients on Church Hill. HauntHunt files it with the Civil War, dark history and medical history. The presences in its file go unnamed: the chimborazo dead, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Richmond","county":null,"state":"Virginia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":37.531399,"lon":-77.476009,"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":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"VA2 batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2324,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The patients are said to be heard on the plateau. The accounts name only a collective — the Chimborazo dead. The site in Richmond, Virginia gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":"The Chimborazo dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Chimborazo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo_Hospital","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2325,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures at the hospital site. Chimborazo Hospital site in Richmond, Virginia carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. The report is preserved in sources like 'Chimborazo'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Chimborazo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo_Hospital","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The hospital treated ~76,000; the site is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Chimborazo'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Chimborazo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo_Hospital","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The patients are said to be heard on the plateau. Chimborazo Hospital site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Chimborazo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo_Hospital","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Chimborazo dead","claimed_identity":"The Chimborazo dead","verified":null,"summary":"The patients are said to be heard on the plateau. The accounts name only a collective — the Chimborazo dead. Chimborazo Hospital site in Richmond, Virginia carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The account appears in 'Chimborazo'. The lore has a face now: The Chimborazo dead.","behavior":"The patients are said to be heard on the plateau.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Chimborazo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo_Hospital","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","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":"Chimborazo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo_Hospital","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}