{"id":777,"slug":"david-and-martha-wright-house-site-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["On December 30, 1860, Martha Coffin Wright sat down in her Auburn home to write her daughter and reported the week's arrivals: 'seven newly arrived Slaves that Harriet Tubman has just pioneered safely from the Southern part of Maryland.' One woman had carried a baby the whole way, a little laudanum keeping it quiet in daylight; the group had walked by night and hidden by day in thickets, whistled back to Tubman when she returned from foraging. They spent that Christmas week at the Wrights' — the file's picture being a kitchen full of people sleeping near the stove."]},{"heading":"The kitchen where the movements crossed","paragraphs":["The house at 192 Genesee Street stood close to the courthouse where Martha's husband David practiced law, and it was a working station in Auburn's Quaker-anchored network — the same households as the Sewards and the Howlands. Martha was Lucretia Mott's sister, and in July 1848, with the Motts staying in that house and Martha visibly pregnant, the sisters met with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and fixed the call for Seneca Falls. Two of the nineteenth century's operations for human freedom ran through the same rooms.","The building is gone — the listing is a site and a marker, the letter the load-bearing evidence. Martha Wright died in Auburn in 1875; her last decade's friendship with Tubman kept the kitchen door working until the war made the railroad obsolete."]}],"name":"David and Martha Wright House Site","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":"NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.","full_desc":"A historic site in Auburn, New York, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, David and Martha Wright House Site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. The archive files it under dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.","address":"192 Genesee Street","city":"Auburn","county":"Cayuga","state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.9338,"lon":-76.567181,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"NPS public listing access field: Yes. This is a listing snapshot; current arrangements still require confirmation.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing","current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 10NY03, source row 223. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened. 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It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","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":"David and Martha Wright House Site is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","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}},{"description":"The house’s UGRR role is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. 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Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened. ","incoming_value":"UGRR enrichment wave 2; VERIFY task auto-queued.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."}],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":3,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}