{"id":3640,"slug":"liberty-monument-pomeroy-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Liberty Monument is the 1912 — the record pins Pomeroy, but the bronze plaques stand at Ripley's riverfront, the 'centennial gift' that's the Frank Gregg gave. The 'wrought' is the verb — the 'men who wrought' that's the abolitionists named, the 'men who fought' that's the Civil War sons. The 'time capsules' is the buried — the '2065' that's the first opens, the '2112' that's the second waits.","The 'twelve names' is the listed — the 'Rankin, Gilliland, Campbell' that's the plaque's leaders, the 'John Parker (colored)' that's the ironmaker included. The 'oldest' is the claimed — the 'monument recognizing UGRR' that's the among the nation's first, the '2021' that's the Network finally listed. Liberty is the overlooking — the 'Ohio River' that's the faced toward Kentucky, the 'Sumter courier' that's the church interrupted.","The file keeps Liberty Monument: the centennial bronze, the wrought-fought distinction, the buried capsules, and the river view.","Liberty Monument is the archive's Ohio file — the memorial to memory."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Liberty Monument is the archive's Ohio file — the town that carved its conscience.","A monument keeps its verbs — the file's suggestion being that Liberty's hold is the generational: the 'wrought' that's the fathers' abolition, the 'fought' that's the sons' war, and the 'capsules' that's the still awaiting future centennials."]}],"name":"Liberty Monument","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD","MONUMENT"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The liberty monument—where the county marked its freedmen.","full_desc":"Liberty Monument is a historic site in Pomeroy, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom. The liberty monument—where the county marked its freedmen. It sits in the archive under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Pomeroy","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":39.034672,"lon":-82.032416,"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. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","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":"Liberty Monument 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. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","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}}