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Forks of the Road Enslavement Market Terminus

Natchez, MississippiSt. Catherine Street1 min readFile amended Directions

Forks of the Road Enslavement Market Terminus is a historic site in Natchez, Mississippi, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing. 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 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.

Archive note: 3 conflicting records
Status
Operating
Designation
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
Coordinates
31.542, -91.386 · Approximate (city centroid)
County
Adams

NPS public listing access field: Yes. This is a listing snapshot; current arrangements still require confirmation.

Is Forks of the Road Enslavement Market Terminus haunted?

No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.

The record — long form

Forks of the Road is the second — the 'largest Deep South' that's the market's rank, the 'tens of thousands' that's the people sold. The 'cholera pushed' is the moved — the '1832' that's the city's fear, the 'outside limits' that's the traders exiled. The 'intersection' is the stood — the 'Liberty and Washington' that's the roads' cross, the 'knoll' that's the sale's stage.

The 'Franklin' is the traded — the 'Isaac's stand' that's the biggest seller, the 'coffles arrived' that's the Upper South marched. The 'Juneteenth '21' is the taken — the 'NPS acquired' that's the parcels given, the 'city donated' that's the reckoning's act. Forks is the terminus — the 'Trace's end' that's the journey's close, the 'sold here' that's the lives dispersed.

The file keeps the Forks: the second-largest market, the cholera exile, the Franklin stands, and the Juneteenth transfer.

Forks of the Road is the archive's Mississippi file — where the trade's machinery met the road.

Why this file matters

Forks of the Road is the archive's Mississippi file — the second-largest slave market in the Deep South.

An intersection keeps its sales — the file's suggestion being that the Forks' hold is the witnessed: the 'tens of thousands' that's the human traffic, the 'cholera moved' that's the banality's proof, and the 'Juneteenth transfer' that's the memory claimed.

Two accounts on file

Short Description
On file

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Also reported

The Natchez market—where the second-largest slave market stood.

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

Historic Designation
On file

National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing

Also reported

NPS Network to Freedom

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Research Notes
On file

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 01MS01, source row 11. 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.

Also reported

UGRR enrichment wave 4; VERIFY task auto-queued.

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

Documented history

  • NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Forks of the Road Enslavement Market Terminus' past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.

    Verified historyNational Park Service
  • Forks of the Road Enslavement Market Terminus is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Forks of the Road Enslavement Market Terminus' past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.

    Verified historyNational Park Service

Sources on file

Field notes & open questions

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 01MS01, source row 11. 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.

"Forks of the Road Enslavement Market Terminus." HauntHunt dossier 0624, https://haunthunt.com/place/forks-of-the-road-enslavement-market-terminus-mississippi/ (file amended October 2, 2026).

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