COLT STATE PARK
Park — Bristol, Rhode Island
Status: Status unknown · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/colt-state-park-bristol-rhode-island/

Park research record.

Colt State Park is a park in Bristol, Rhode Island. Park research record. It sits in the archive under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.

Colt State Park is the farm that had to stay public — Samuel Pomeroy Colt's Poppasquash Neck estate, assembled from three farms starting in 1903, where the U.S. Rubber chairman grazed his Jersey herd under bronze statues of the bulls at the gate. His cousin was the revolver Colt; his grandfather was the slave-trading DeWolf who'd bankrupted Bristol a generation before — Colt's farm was the family's redemption, the showcase estate on Narragansett Bay.
His will said it couldn't be sold and had to stay open — the state took it in 1965 and made it the gem of the park system, four hundred sixty-four acres of carriage roads and stone walls and the Casino foundation where the lawn meets the bay. The bull gates still welcome the public the will required — the park that was a banker's farm and a slave-trader's redemption, kept open by the dead man's clause.
The file keeps Colt: the DeWolf inheritance, the 1903 farm, the Jersey bulls, and the will that made it a park.
Colt State Park is the archive's Bristol file — the banker's farm that the will kept public.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Colt State Park is the archive's Bristol file — the 1903 estate and the will that preserved it.
A farm that can't be sold keeps its bulls — the file's suggestion being that Colt's hold is the stipulation: the banker's estate that had to stay open, and the bronze Jerseys still guarding the gate to the park the family made out of the DeWolf wreckage.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Reported experience] electronic anomalies: Park staff reportedly encountered lights and doors changing state; a stable-hand legend accompanies these stories. Open country keeps its stories differently — Colt State Park in Bristol, Rhode Island files its reports in weather and distance. Witnesses report it; the record leaves it there. Sources including 'Haunted Spots in Newport' keep the claim in circulation. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.
  source: Haunted Spots in Newport (https://www.discovernewport.org/blog/post/haunted-spots/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Haunted Spots in Newport — Discover Newport
  https://www.discovernewport.org/blog/post/haunted-spots/

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