{"id":3703,"slug":"elizabeth-keckly-burial-site-washington-maryland","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Keckly's grave is the moved one — the Harmony Cemetery burial that was relocated, the bronze plaque at National Harmony. The freedom was the purchase — the $1,200 for herself and George, the dressmaking that bought the papers. The White House was the work — Mary Lincoln's modiste, the confidante who dressed the First Lady.","The memoir was the scandal — 'Behind the Scenes' that told the White House, the 'old clothes' that Mary tried to sell. The son was the loss — George passing for white to fight, Wilson's Creek where he died. Keckly's grave is the forgotten-found — the cemetery that was moved, the plaque that marks where the dressmaker lies.","The file keeps Keckly's grave: the $1,200 freedom, the Lincoln dressmaking, the memoir, and the moved burial.","Keckly's grave is the archive's Washington file — the modiste's relocated rest."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Keckly's grave is the archive's Washington file — the First Lady's dressmaker.","A grave keeps its mover — the file's suggestion being that Keckly's hold is the displacement: the cemetery that was moved, the woman who bought herself, and the dresses that made her the confidante."]}],"name":"Elizabeth Keckly Burial Site","aliases":[],"type":"CEMETERY","type_label":"Cemetery","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","CEMETERY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["cemeteries","dark-history"],"desc":"The modiste’s grave—where Mrs. Lincoln’s confidante rests.","full_desc":"A cemetery in Washington, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom, Elizabeth Keckly Burial Site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The modiste’s grave—where Mrs. Lincoln’s confidante rests. It sits in the archive under 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 grounds are open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Washington","county":null,"state":"Maryland","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":38.731868,"lon":-77.008662,"coord_kind":"CITY","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. The burial ground's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. 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 date is part of the site's documented spine.","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":"Elizabeth Keckly Burial Site is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. A cemetery in Washington, Maryland with this much on record gives the file real ground to stand on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. 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":"Keckly’s story is documented. A cemetery in Washington, Maryland with this much on record gives the file real ground to stand 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'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}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Public cemetery; generally open during daylight hours. Be respectful of active burials; 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}}