COLLINWOOD SCHOOL FIRE SITE
Site — Cleveland, Ohio
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/collinwood-school-fire-site-cleveland-ohio/

March 4, 1908—the fire that killed 172 children.

Collinwood school fire site is a site in Cleveland, Ohio. March 4, 1908—the fire that killed 172 children. Its accounts name only a collective — the collinwood children. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.

Collinwood is the school — the '08 fire that killed 172 children, the Lakeview that's the site. The stairwell was the chimney — the oiled floors that fueled, the packed exit that trapped. The Thompson boys were the brothers — the Niles who ran back, the Thomas who was lost.
The 19 were the unnamed — the common grave at Lake View, the bodies that couldn't be known. The codes were the changed — the panic bars that were invented, the fire drills that are law. Collinwood is the worst — the school fire that's the record, the Collinwood that was the village.
The file keeps Collinwood: the 1908 fire, the 172 children, the Thompson brothers, and the code changes.
Collinwood is the archive's Cleveland file — the school fire.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Collinwood is the archive's Cleveland file — the deadliest school fire.
A school keeps its stairwell — the file's suggestion being that Collinwood's hold is the trap: the 172 who couldn't leave, the Niles who ran back, and the codes that were bought.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The children are reportedly remembered. The presences go by the Collinwood children in the file. Collinwood school fire site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. 'Collinwood school fire' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.
  source: Collinwood school fire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collingwood,_Ontario)
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported a presence at the site. Collinwood school fire site in Cleveland, Ohio carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. 'Collinwood school fire' carries the account. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: Collinwood school fire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collingwood,_Ontario)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The March 4, 1908 fire is documented; 174 died. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Collinwood school fire' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Collinwood school fire — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collingwood,_Ontario

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