HARPERS FERRY NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
Historic Site — PO Box 65, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, West Virginia
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/harpers-ferry-national-historical-park-west-virginia/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is a historic site in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 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.

Harpers Ferry is where the Civil War's fuse was lit — John Brown's 1859 raid on the federal armory being the act that made the war inevitable, the town at the rivers' meeting holding the armory, the raid, and the war that followed in its streets.
The file's documented spine is the Network to Freedom listing: the town's Underground Railroad role being the record the raid made famous — Brown's failed revolution being the war's first battle, fought five years before Fort Sumter.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Harpers Ferry is the archive's first-battle file — the town where Brown's raid started the war early, its Network to Freedom listing being the record's weight. The file has no legend layer: a town that saw the country's reckoning begin needs no ghost.
A town that held the war's first shot keeps it — the file's suggestion being that Harpers Ferry's streets still hold October 1859, the raid's dead still at the armory where Brown's war began.

HISTORY — 2 documented facts
· 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'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.
· Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.

SOURCES — 4 cited
· Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01 — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223
· NPS Network to Freedom listing — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm
· Underground Railroad — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad
· Harpers Ferry NHP — NPS — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/hafe

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