{"id":3627,"slug":"john-king-farm-sardinia-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["King Farm is the swamp — the record pins Sardinia, but the station stood in York Township, Fulton County, the 'Black Swamp' that's the ridges guided through. The '1848' is the fifteen — the 'William King' that's the freed his own slaves, the '1,500 miles' that's the Louisiana to Ohio. The 'Buxton' is the seed — the 'Mission' that's the Canada colony grew from them, the 'wages' that's the first earned.","The 'read and write' is the taught — the 'severe penalties' that's the risked to teach, the 'King children' that's the learned beside. The 'extended' is the network — the 'Bruce, Donahue' that's the intermarried clans, the 'Ridge Road' that's the through the swamp. King is the cemetery — the '1838' that's the family plot, the 'memorial stone' that's the William buried in Canada.","The file keeps King Farm: the fifteen freed, the swamp ridges, the taught letters, and the Buxton seed.","John King Farm is the archive's Ohio file — the swamp's waystation."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["John King Farm is the archive's Ohio file — the farm that grew a colony.","A farm keeps its ridges — the file's suggestion being that King's hold is the multiplied: the 'fifteen freed' that's the became Buxton's core, the 'wages and letters' that's the rehearsed freedom, and the 'swamp' that's the hid the passage."]}],"name":"John King Farm","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD","AGRICULTURE"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The King farm—where the barn hid the fugitives.","full_desc":"A historic site in Sardinia, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom, John King Farm is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The King farm—where the barn hid the fugitives. The archive files it under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Sardinia","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":39.007113,"lon":-83.802101,"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. 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 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","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 King Farm is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. 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 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' 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":"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":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":2,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}