{"id":3611,"slug":"lindale-baptist-church-and-cemetery-lindale-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Lindale is the between — the 'Rankin to Coffin' that's the Ripley to Cincinnati link, the 'Coombs' that's the former student kept it. The '1836' is the organized — the 'Gilead Anti-Slavery' that's the secretary named, the 'residence next door' that's the station adjoined the church. The 'Route 132' is the line — the 'New Richmond' that's the north from, the '125' that's the Rankin's own road.","The 'teacher' is the chain — the 'Rankin taught Coombs' that's the schoolmaster's pupil, the 'buried behind' that's the cemetery kept him. The 'Clermont corridor' is the map — the 'route intersection' that's the 125 meets 132, the 'station geography' that's the roads remembered. Lindale is the modest — the 'church still active' that's the '3052 State Route 132', the 'cemetery open' that's the public welcome.","The file keeps Lindale: the pupil's station, the Gilead secretaryship, the route intersection, and the grave behind the church.","Lindale Baptist is the archive's Ohio file — the student's continuation."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Lindale Baptist Church is the archive's Ohio file — the link between two giants.","A church keeps its teacher — the file's suggestion being that Lindale's hold is the connected: the 'Rankin's student' that's the carried the lesson north, the 'Coffin link' that's the completed the route, and the 'road intersection' that's the geography of freedom."]}],"name":"Lindale Baptist Church and Cemetery","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","CEMETERY","RELIGIOUS","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The church and cemetery—where the community’s dead rest.","full_desc":"A historic site in Lindale, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom, Lindale Baptist Church and Cemetery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The church and cemetery—where the community’s dead rest. HauntHunt files it with 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":"Lindale","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":null,"lon":null,"coord_kind":null,"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. Lindale Baptist Church and Cemetery's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. 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":"Lindale Baptist Church and Cemetery 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. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","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}}