Howland Stone Store
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.
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Is Howland Stone Store 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
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.
Two accounts on file
NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.
The Sherwood store—where the Quaker merchant sheltered the fugitives.
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 10NY04, source row 224. 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 2; 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. 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.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceHowland 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.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceThe 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.
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 10NY04, source row 224. 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.