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Jacob Heald Farm Site

Camden, Delaware1655 Old Wilmington Road1 min readFile amended Directions

A historic site in Camden, Delaware, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Jacob Heald Farm Site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. HauntHunt files it with dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. Access is restricted, and the file says so plainly.

Archive note: 4 conflicting records
Status
Operating
Designation
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
Coordinates
39.099, -75.557 · Approximate (city centroid)

NPS public listing access field: No. This is a listing snapshot; current arrangements still require confirmation.

Is Jacob Heald Farm Site 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 Heald farm is the owned — the 'Ocasson' that's the '26 brick, the 'Quaker abolitionist' that's the '30-56 hold. The 'Hockessin corridor' is the sat — the 'UGRR dense' that's the neighborhood's work, the 'Hunn and Garrett' that's the network near. The 'Flemish bond' is the built — the 'Penn land' that's the Letitia's grant, the 'bank barn' that's the '70 added.

The 'Mitchell's dairy' is the changed — the '1868' that's the next owner, the 'expanded barn' that's the cows housed. The 'NRHP '17' is the listed — the 'agricultural complex' that's the three centuries kept, the 'Heald's years' that's the abolition's span. The farm is the layered — the 'Cox to Phillips to Heald' that's the owners' line, the 'freedom's work' that's the middle's mark.

The file keeps Heald: the Quaker's ownership, the corridor's work, the Flemish brick, and the dairy's after.

The Heald farm is the archive's Delaware file — the Quaker owner in the rescue corridor.

Why this file matters

The Heald farm is the archive's Delaware file — the abolitionist's years on a working farm.

A farmstead keeps its owner — the file's suggestion being that Heald's hold is the timed: the 'Quaker's quarter-century' that's the antislavery span, the 'corridor' that's the neighbors' network, and the 'complex kept' that's the building's survival.

Two accounts on file

Short Description
On file

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Also reported

The Heald farm—the family’s station.

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

Public Access
On file

RESTRICTED

Also reported

PUBLIC

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

Historic Designation
On file

National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing

Also reported

NPS Network to Freedom

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

Research Notes
On file

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 44DE01, source row 683. 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.

Also reported

UGRR enrichment wave 4; 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. 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. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.

    Verified historyNational Park Service
  • Jacob Heald Farm Site is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Jacob Heald Farm Site'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. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.

    Verified historyNational Park Service

Sources on file

Field notes & open questions

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 44DE01, source row 683. 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.

"Jacob Heald Farm Site." HauntHunt dossier 1115, https://haunthunt.com/place/jacob-heald-farm-site-delaware/ (file amended October 2, 2026).

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