LEWELLING-GIBBS HOUSE
Historic Site — 401 South Main Street, Salem, Henry County, Iowa
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/lewelling-gibbs-house-iowa/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

A historic site in Salem, Iowa, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Lewelling-Gibbs House 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. The site is open to visitors.

Lewelling is the oldest — the '1840-42' that's the sandstone 18-inch walls, the 'only survivor' that's the six Salem safe houses. The 'Ruel Daggs' is the case — the '1848' that's the Gibbs heard arguments here, the 'kitchen spot' that's the families hid overnight. The 'twenty-five miles' is the risk — the 'Missouri' that's the slave state border, the 'bounty '39' that's the earliest recorded near Salem.
The 'Abolition Friends' is the split — the 'Monthly Meeting' that's the formed in their home, the 'nurserymen' that's the grafted Iowa's orchards. The 'Oregon' is the gone — the 'previous year' that's the Lewellings moved, the 'Gibbs office' that's the justice kept the house. Lewelling is the intact — the 'beneath the floors' that's the hiding spaces still, the 'Network site' that's the museum now.
The file keeps Lewelling: the sandstone walls, the Daggs hearing, the hidden kitchen, and the six-become-one.
Lewelling-Gibbs House is the archive's Iowa file — the Quaker orchard's cellar.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Lewelling-Gibbs House is the archive's Iowa file — the safe house that stayed.
A house keeps its floorboards — the file's suggestion being that Lewelling's hold is the survived: the 'six known stations' that's the five demolished, the 'Daggs case' that's the heard in its rooms, and the 'orchard grafts' that's the planted Iowa's fruit beside freedom.

HISTORY — 3 documented facts
· 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. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.
· Lewelling-Gibbs 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. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.
· The house’s UGRR role is documented. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. The record keeps it — history, not lore.

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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