Hannah Toliver Historical Marker
Hannah Toliver Historical Marker is a historic site in Jeffersonville, Indiana, 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 3 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.
NPS public listing access field: Yes. This is a listing snapshot; current arrangements still require confirmation.
· in your passport — stamped · open it
Is Hannah Toliver Historical Marker 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
Toliver is the laundress — the 'free Black' that's the Jeffersonville, the 'scrub board' that's the pennies a day. The 'April '64' is the arrested — the 'aiding a fugitive' that's the after Emancipation, the 'Kentucky' that's the still slave state. The 'seven years' is the sentenced — the 'May conviction' that's the Frankfort pen, the 'nineteen free persons of color' that's the same charge.
The 'pardoned' is the '65 — the 'January 5' that's the released, the 'returned' that's the Jeffersonville. The 'no image' is the vanished — the 'widow '70' that's the census, the 'faded' that's the '80 gone. Toliver is the marker — the 'Pearl and Riverside' that's the wharf, the '2008' that's the two women honored.
The file keeps Toliver: the laundress, the seven years, the pardon, and the faded census.
Hannah Toliver is the archive's Indiana file — the jailed for one act.
Why this file matters
Hannah Toliver is the archive's Indiana file — the punished helper.
A marker keeps its scrub board — the file's suggestion being that Toliver's hold is the penalized: the 'seven years' that's the for one fugitive, the 'after Proclamation' that's the Kentucky's lag, and the 'no photograph' that's the only a marker left.
Two accounts on file
NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.
The Toliver marker—where the freedwoman is remembered.
Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
NPS Network to Freedom
Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.
Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 18IN01, source row 363. 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.
UGRR enrichment wave 3; 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. The site'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. The detail is preserved in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceHannah Toliver Historical Marker is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Hannah Toliver Historical Marker'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. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceToliver’s story is documented. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore.
Verified historyNational Park Service
Sources on file
- 01Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01National Park Service · government · A1
- 02NPS Network to Freedom listingNational Park Service · government · A1
- 03Underground RailroadWikipedia · encyclopedia · A4
Field notes & open questions
Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 18IN01, source row 363. 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.