FRANKLIN
Ghost Town — Black Diamond, Washington
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/franklin-black-diamond-washington/

The coal town where the 1894 fire killed 37 miners.

A ghost town in Black Diamond, Washington, Franklin is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The coal town where the 1894 fire killed 37 miners. The presences in its file go unnamed: the miners, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.

Franklin is the coal — the '85 town that's the company, the Green River Gorge that's the source. The fire was the '94 — the 37 who died in the mine, the 'willfully malicious' that's the cause. The strike was the '91 — the Black strikebreakers who came, the National Guard that was called.
The railroad was the '85 — the Columbia & Puget Sound that's the link, the San Francisco that's the market. The ghost is the complete — the '22 end that's the mining, the foundations that remain. Franklin is the lost — the town that's the most gone, the hot spring that's the after.
The file keeps Franklin: the 1885 founding, the '94 fire, the '91 strike, and the ghost.
Franklin is the archive's Black Diamond file — the coal ghost town.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Franklin is the archive's Black Diamond file — the murdered mine.
A ghost town keeps its fire — the file's suggestion being that Franklin's hold is the '94: the 37 who died, the 'malicious' that's the verdict, and the town that's the most lost.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The miners are reportedly remembered. In a place where the population already left once, the remaining reports at Franklin feel almost inevitable. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. 'Franklin' carries the account. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.
  source: Franklin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin,_Washington)
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported figures at the site. In a place where the population already left once, the remaining reports at Franklin feel almost inevitable. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. It remains the site's standing claim.
  source: Franklin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin,_Washington)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The August 24, 1894 fire is documented; 37 died. A ghost town's file is unusual: the emptiness itself is documented, and this entry is part of that record. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Franklin' documents the entry. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Franklin — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin,_Washington

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