{"id":947,"slug":"dr-robert-collins-house-william-and-ellen-craft-escape-site-georgia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Collins house is the departed — the 'Ellen's disguise' that's the white planter played, the 'William's role' that's the faithful slave acted. The 'wedding gift' is the given — the 'half-sister' that's the Ellen presented, the 'looked white' that's the resemblance dangerous. The 'four days' is the ran — the 'Christmas '48' that's the Philadelphia reached, the 'trains and steamers' that's the open traveled.","The 'desperate leap' is the said — the 'William's words' that's the departure's call, the 'invalid gentleman' that's the costume worn. The 'fled to England' is the forced — the 'Fugitive Act' that's the '50 threat, the 'returned '70' that's the Georgia came back. The Collins house is the start — the 'tiny house' that's the Ellen's quarters, the 'disguise bought' that's the pieces gathered.","The file keeps the Collins house: the planter's costume, the Christmas arrival, the England flight, and the Georgia return.","Collins House is the archive's Georgia file — the escape in plain sight."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Collins House is the archive's Georgia file — the disguise that walked through five slave states.","A house keeps its departure — the file's suggestion being that the Collins hold is the bold: the 'white planter' that's the performance's nerve, the 'open travel' that's the hiding's opposite, and the 'Christmas Day' that's the freedom's timing."]}],"name":"Dr. Robert Collins House: William and Ellen Craft Escape 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 Macon, Georgia, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Dr. Robert Collins House: William and Ellen Craft Escape Site 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. Access is restricted, and the file says so plainly.","address":"830 Mulberry St","city":"Macon","county":"Bibb","state":"Georgia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":32.79799,"lon":-83.74606,"coord_kind":"COUNTY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"RESTRICTED","access_notes":"NPS public listing access field: No. 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 27GA01, source row 479. 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. ","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":62.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.35,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"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 fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. 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