DR. SAMUEL TIBBETS HOUSE
Historic Site — 6882 W. SR 250, Sunman, Jefferson County, Indiana
Status: Operating · Access: Restricted access
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/dr-samuel-tibbets-house-indiana/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Dr. Samuel Tibbets House is a historic site in Sunman, Indiana, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing. 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 3 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Access is restricted — check current rules before planning anything.

Tibbets is the father — the 'Samuel' that's the doctor, the 'John' that's the son-conductor. The 'sixteen' is the started — the 'first fugitive' that's the '38, the 'horseback at night' that's the fifteen miles. The 'toll gates' is the gauntlet — the 'three' that's the talked through, the 'lantern' that's the kept from the buggy.
The 'Eleutherian' is the founded — the 'college' that's the women and Blacks admitted, the 'Neil's Creek' that's the society. The 'letter' is the rare — the 'Reminiscences' that's the first-hand, the 'twenty-two miles' that's the before daylight. Tibbets is the lineage — the 'Clermont' that's the brought methods, the 'Lancaster' that's the whole abolitionist community.
The file keeps the Tibbets house: the father-doctor, the son's midnight rides, the toll gates, and the college.
Dr. Tibbets House is the archive's Indiana file — the taught resistance.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Dr. Tibbets House is the archive's Indiana file — the father's faith, son's wheels.
A house keeps its letters — the file's suggestion being that Tibbets' hold is the inherited: the 'sixteen' that's the started young, the 'toll gates' that's the bluffed through, and the 'Eleutherian' that's the educated the freed.

HISTORY — 3 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Dr. Samuel Tibbets House's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.
· Dr. Samuel Tibbets House 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. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine.
· Tibbets’s work is documented. 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. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

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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