KIMZEY CROSSING/LOCUST HILL
Historic Site — 7883 Kimzey Road, Hawthorn Woods, Perry County, Illinois
Status: Operating · Access: Restricted access
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/kimzey-crossing-locust-hill-illinois/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

A historic site in Hawthorn Woods, Illinois, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Kimzey Crossing/Locust Hill 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 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. Access is restricted, and the file says so plainly.

Kimzey is the academy — the 'Locust Hill' that's the school Roots founded, the '1,200 acres' that's the Tamaroa farm '37. The 'Jim Gray' is the documented — the 'October '59' that's the kidnapping Roots fought, the 'Hossack trial' that's the testified in Chicago. The 'family tradition' is the rest — the 'hiding places' that's the altered beyond proof, the 'burial ground' that's the former seekers' settlement.
The 'Shawneetown-St. Louis' is the trail — the '1854-56' that's the mansion built along, the 'log cabin' that's the first schoolhouse gone. The 'protracted intervention' is the phrase — the 'legal redress' that's the fought catchers in court, the 'defense witness' that's the lent credence. Kimzey is the partial — the 'documented one case' that's the tradition rests on, the 'twentieth century' that's the erased the evidence.
The file keeps Kimzey: the academy farm, the Jim Gray fight, the mansion on the trail, and the altered proof.
Kimzey Crossing is the archive's Illinois file — the one documented night.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Kimzey Crossing is the archive's Illinois file — the tradition with one witness.
A farm keeps its testimony — the file's suggestion being that Kimzey's hold is the evidentiary: the 'Gray incident' that's the courtroom-documented, the 'Locust Hill Academy' that's the taught beside the hiding, and the 'altered landscape' that's the left tradition unproven.

HISTORY — 3 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Kimzey Crossing/Locust Hill's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
· Kimzey Crossing/Locust Hill 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 detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.
· The crossing’s UGRR role is documented. 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 detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

SOURCES — 3 cited
· Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01 — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223
· NPS Network to Freedom listing — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm
· Underground Railroad — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad

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