HARRIET TUBMAN HOUSE
Historic Site — 180 South Street, Auburn, Cayuga County, New York
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/harriet-tubman-house-new-york/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman House is a historic site in Auburn, New York, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. It sits in the archive 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.

Harriet Tubman spent the decade after her escape in motion — thirteen returns to Maryland, seventy family and friends brought north, the most famous conductor on the Railroad with no fixed home of her own. In 1859, with war coming, she bought a seven-acre farm outside Auburn, New York, from Frances Seward — the senator's wife — for $1,200, with $25 down. It became the haven: her parents, brothers, nieces and nephews sheltered there among the free Black community called New Guinea, in a landscape that felt like Maryland without its laws.
The farm was never just hers — Tubman ran it as an open door, taking in orphans, the disabled, the old, anyone who had suffered under slavery and war and had nowhere else. When the community built her a brick house in 1881–82 on the old foundation, she filled it the same way. At seventy-four she bought twenty-five adjoining acres at auction to found the Tubman Home for Aged and Indigent Negroes — and when she couldn't raise the funds, she deeded it to the AME Zion Church in exchange for their promise to run it.
The home opened in 1908; Tubman herself became its patient, living in John Brown Hall — the infirmary named for the man she had been planning to join at Harpers Ferry — until her death in 1913. The woman the bounty hunters couldn't catch spent her last years in the institution she had built for the people nobody else was caring for.
Harriet Tubman's Auburn home is the archive's Moses file — the farm the most wanted conductor in America bought for $25 down, the house she filled with the vulnerable, and the home for the aged where she died in the building named for John Brown.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Harriet Tubman House is the archive's conductor's-home file — the Auburn farm bought from Frances Seward in 1859 where the Railroad's most famous conductor sheltered her family and anyone in need, and the adjacent Home for the Aged where she spent her final years as a patient in John Brown Hall.
A conductor's house keeps its open door — the file's suggestion being that the Auburn farm's hold is the welcome: the woman who could not be caught made a place where nobody was turned away, in the house and the home she built for the people the country had discarded.

HISTORY — 3 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Harriet Tubman House's 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. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. The record keeps it — history, not lore.
· Harriet Tubman House is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.
· Tubman’s 1859 purchase and her residence are documented. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.

SOURCES — 3 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

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