{"id":3683,"slug":"eliza-parker-escape-site-at-bellevue-farm-bellevue-maryland","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Bellevue Farm is the escape's start — the Havre de Grace plantation where Eliza Howard grew up enslaved, the 1846 flight with her mother and siblings. The Christiana was the destination — the Pennsylvania stone house where she married William Parker, the '51 standoff that killed Gorsuch. The horn was the signal — the blast that brought the neighbors, the resistance that became a Civil War spark.","The farm is the origin — the Davis plantation on the Susquehanna, the 'promised land' that Havre de Grace was. The resistance is the legacy — the forty arrested, the fugitive slave law's first blood. Bellevue Farm is the UGRR's Maryland — the escape that led to Christiana, the woman whose horn defended freedom.","The file keeps Bellevue Farm: the 1846 escape, the Parker marriage, the Christiana Resistance, and the horn.","Bellevue Farm is the archive's Harford file — the escape that made the resistance."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Bellevue Farm is the archive's Harford file — the Christiana Resistance's origin.","A farm keeps its fugitive — the file's suggestion being that Bellevue's hold is the connection: the escape to Pennsylvania, the horn that rallied the defenders, and the slaveholder who died."]}],"name":"Eliza Parker Escape Site at Bellevue Farm","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD","AGRICULTURE"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The farm—where Parker escaped across the Tred Avon.","full_desc":"A historic site in Bellevue, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom, Eliza Parker Escape Site at Bellevue Farm is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The farm—where Parker escaped across the Tred Avon. HauntHunt files it with Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Bellevue","county":null,"state":"Maryland","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":null,"lon":null,"coord_kind":null,"status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"NPS Network to Freedom","current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"UGRR enrichment wave 1; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"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. Eliza Parker Escape Site at Bellevue Farm'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. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","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":"Eliza Parker Escape Site at Bellevue Farm 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. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","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":"Parker’s escape is documented. Eliza Parker Escape Site at Bellevue Farm'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. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","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}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic site; verify hours and access with the managing agency before visiting; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"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},{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Underground Railroad","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":3,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}