HOWLAND STONE STORE
Historic Site — Box 124, Sherwood, Cayuga County, New York
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/howland-stone-store-new-york/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Howland Stone Store is a historic site in Sherwood, 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.

The Stone Store is the cobblestone — the '1837' that's the Slocum built, the 'shipping connections' that's the moved people like freight. The 'Emily' is the daughter — the 'fifty schools' that's the founded for freed people, the '102' that's the lived to, first woman bank director. The 'Phillips' is the tenants — the 'Herman and Hannah' that's the housed, the 'diaries' that's the Emily documented.
The 'Opendore' is the sister — the 'Isabel' that's the named the door open, the '1910' that's the suffragist estate. The 'district' is the twenty-eight — the 'Equal Rights' that's the '91 association, the 'Quaker core' that's the Sherwood's engine. The Store is the archive — the 'cabinet of curiosities' that's the museum '80s, the 'bequeathed' that's the '65 to Auburn.
The file keeps the Stone Store: the cobblestone freight line, Emily's schools, Isabel's open door, and the Phillips papers.
Howland Stone Store is the archive's New York file — the Quaker's warehouse.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Howland Stone Store is the archive's New York file — the store that stocked freedom.
A store keeps its ledger — the file's suggestion being that Howland's hold is the commercial: the 'shipping contacts' that's the routed people north, the 'fifty schools' that's the daughter's answer, and the 'Opendore' that's the named the ethos.

HISTORY — 3 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Howland Stone Store'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. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
· Howland Stone Store 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. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.
· The store’s UGRR role is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The reports keep the address on the map.

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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