{"id":2972,"slug":"fort-at-no-4-charlestown-new-hampshire","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Fort at No. 4 is the edge — the 'northernmost' that's the line's end, the 'Plantation Four' that's the number's source. The '31 held' is the few — the 'three days' that's the siege's length, the 'April '47' that's the stand's date. The 'dogs barked' is the warned — the 'alerted' that's the defense's start, the 'burn refused' that's the fort's hold.","The 'Stark gathered' is the mustered — the '1,500' that's the Bennington's start, the '1777' that's the march's year. The 'recreated' is the rebuilt — the '1960' that's the museum's date, the 'stockade' that's the copy's form. Fort at No. 4 is the named — the 'number stuck' that's the town's habit, the 'Charlestown' that's the official's name.","The file keeps Fort at No. 4: the edge fort, the 31's stand, the dogs' warning, and the number's name.","Fort at No. 4 is the archive's New Hampshire file — the northernmost post that held."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Fort at No. 4 is the archive's New Hampshire file — the frontier's last post that refused to fall.","A fort keeps its edge — the file's suggestion being that No. 4's hold is the northernmost: the '31 men' that's the garrison's size, the 'dogs warned' that's the defense's luck, and the 'number kept' that's the name's habit."]}],"name":"Fort at No. 4","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","FRONTIER","MILITARY"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The 1744 frontier fort—where the settlers held the Connecticut.","full_desc":"Fort at No. 4 is a site in Charlestown, New Hampshire. The 1744 frontier fort—where the settlers held the Connecticut. HauntHunt files it with the frontier, military history and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Charlestown","county":null,"state":"New Hampshire","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":43.235548,"lon":-72.422511,"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":null,"current_use":"Historic site / park","research_notes":"NE2 batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2791,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures at the fort. Fort at No. 4's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it. The reports keep the address on the map.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Fort at No. 4","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fort_at_No._4","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1744 fort is documented; the reconstruction is on site. Fort at No. 4's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Fort at No. 4' carry the record. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1744","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Fort at No. 4","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fort_at_No._4","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures at the fort. The reports at Fort at No. 4 are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. Sources including 'Fort at No. 4' keep the claim in circulation. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Fort at No. 4","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fort_at_No._4","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","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":"Fort at No. 4","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fort_at_No._4","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}