{"id":3599,"slug":"john-brown-house-akron-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The John Brown House was the abolitionist's Akron home — where Brown lived from 1844 to 1854, running a wool partnership while deepening the abolitionist work that would end at Harpers Ferry. The file's documented spine is the decade: a house where the future raider was a respectable businessman on the surface and a committed Underground Railroad agent underneath.","The Network to Freedom listing marks the house's real function — a station and a safe house during Brown's Akron years, the respectable wool merchant's home being the movement's documented address."]},{"heading":"Brown's decade","paragraphs":["The file's legend layer is empty — the house's claim is its documented occupant: ten years of John Brown's life before Kansas and the gallows, the abolitionist's ordinary-house register being the archive's most extraordinary residency.","Brown's Akron years are the file's weight — a house that held the nation's most consequential abolitionist while he planned in respectable disguise, the domestic surface over the revolutionary underneath."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The John Brown House is the archive's abolitionist file — Brown's Akron home during his UGRR decade, a Network to Freedom site with no need of ghosts. The documented residency is the record; the man's later violence makes the quiet house seismic.","A house that hid a revolutionary keeps his memory — the file's suggestion being that Akron's John Brown house holds the calm before the storm that ended at Harpers Ferry."]}],"name":"John Brown House","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The abolitionist’s Akron home—where Brown lived before Harper’s Ferry.","full_desc":"A historic site in Akron, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom, John Brown House is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The abolitionist’s Akron home—where Brown lived before Harper’s Ferry. HauntHunt files it with Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Akron","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":41.080456,"lon":-81.521429,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"NPS Network to Freedom","current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"UGRR enrichment wave 1; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"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 is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"John Brown House 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. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"Brown’s Akron residence is documented. John Brown House'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 record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic site; verify hours and access with the managing agency before visiting; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Underground Railroad","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[{"field_name":"street_address","existing_value":"514 Diagonal Road","incoming_value":"4138 W. Streetsboro Road","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."},{"field_name":"public_access","existing_value":"PUBLIC","incoming_value":"RESTRICTED","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."},{"field_name":"access_notes","existing_value":"NPS public listing access field: Yes. This is a listing snapshot; current arrangements still require confirmation.","incoming_value":"NPS public listing access field: No. This is a listing snapshot; current arrangements still require confirmation.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."},{"field_name":"research_notes","existing_value":"Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 27OH01, source row 492. 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. ","incoming_value":"Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 44OH01, source row 692. 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. ","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."}],"wiki":{"title":"John Brown House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_House","desc":"Topics referred to by the same term","extract":"John Brown House, or John Brown Farmhouse or variations, may refer to:\n\nin the United States\n(by state)\n\nJohn Stanford Brown House, Walnut Grove, California, listed on the NRHP in Sacramento County, California\nJohn Brown Stone Warehouse, Fort Wayne, Indiana\nJohn Brown Cabin, Osawatomie, Kansas\nJohn C. Brown House, Mulberry, Kentucky, listed on the NRHP\nThe Gothic House, Portland, Maine, also known as the John J. Brown House\nJohn Brown IV House, Swansea, Massachusetts\nJohn Brown Farm and Gravesite, Lake Placid, New York\nJohn Brown House, a historic house property owned by the Summit County Historical Society of Akron, Ohio\nJohn Hartness Brown House, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, listed on the NRHP","img":null,"score":89},"counts":{"claims":0,"history":3,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}