Ira Blanchard House and Cemetery
A historic site in Civil Bend, Iowa, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Ira Blanchard House and Cemetery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. 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 — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. Access is restricted, and the file says so plainly.
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Is Ira Blanchard House and Cemetery 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
Blanchard is the first stop — the 'February 4, '59' that's the John Brown crossed, the 'twelve escaped' that's the from Kansas. The 'Civil Bend' is the gone — the 'first free soil' that's the past the Missouri, the 'Kansas mission' that's the Blanchard's route west. The 'cemetery' is the '64 — the 'wife's funeral' that's the named it, the 'few hundred yards' that's the from the house.
The 'bondsman' is the legal — the 'let Blacks settle' that's the posted for residents, the 'physician-scholar' that's the town's own. The 'Brown's last trip' is the '59 — the 'winter journey' that's the to Chicago, the 'cabin' that's the sheltered the party. Blanchard is the ghost — the 'house gone' that's the only cemetery left, the 'marker' that's the Fremont County's.
The file keeps Blanchard: the '59 crossing, the first free stop, the cemetery's origin, and the vanished house.
Ira Blanchard House is the archive's Iowa file — Brown's first rest.
Why this file matters
Ira Blanchard House is the archive's Iowa file — the threshold of free soil.
A cemetery keeps its namesake — the file's suggestion being that Blanchard's hold is the bordered: the 'first stop' that's the over the river, the 'Brown' that's the slept there twice, and the 'wife's grave' that's the founded the graveyard.
Two accounts on file
HISTORIC_SITE
CEMETERY
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NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.
The Blanchard house and cemetery—where the family sheltered and rest.
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PUBLIC
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National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
NPS Network to Freedom
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Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 07IA02, source row 147. 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.
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Documented history
NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Ira Blanchard House and Cemetery's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceIra Blanchard House and Cemetery 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. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceThe site’s UGRR role is documented. Ira Blanchard House and Cemetery'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. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.
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 07IA02, source row 147. 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.