COLONIAL PARK
Historic Site — Broad Street, along Edenton Bay Waterfront, Halifax, Chowan County, North Carolina
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/colonial-park-north-carolina/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

A historic site in Halifax, North Carolina, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Colonial Park 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 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.

Colonial Park is the sailed — the 'Edenton Bay' that's the nighttime departures, the 'Harriet Jacobs' that's the seven years hid. The 'crawlspace' is the bent — the 'grandmother's attic' that's the body folded, the 'watched children' that's the peephole's view. The 'second port' is the worked — the 'docks' that's the escape's door, the 'cargo vessels' that's the freedom's ships.
The 'loophole' is the written — the 'Incidents' that's the memoir's fame, the 'northern light' that's the hope's name. The 'sailboats now' is the changed — the 'NTF site' that's the park marked, the 'benches' that's the bay's calm. Colonial Park is the folded — the 'seven years' that's the space's measure, the 'boat north' that's the end reached.
The file keeps Colonial Park: Jacobs' crawlspace, the bay's departures, the loophole's name, and the calm now.
Colonial Park is the archive's North Carolina file — the water Harriet Jacobs crossed.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Colonial Park is the archive's North Carolina file — the bay Jacobs escaped across.
A waterfront keeps its sail — the file's suggestion being that the park's hold is the endured: the 'seven years' that's the crawlspace's span, the 'watched children' that's the view's price, and the 'boat' that's the freedom reached.

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. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
· Colonial Park is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Colonial Park's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.

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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