{"id":3671,"slug":"long-wharf-at-cambridge-cambridge-maryland","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Long Wharf is the sold — the 'thousands shipped' that's the to Deep South, the 'wheat collapse' that's the made people cargo. The 'trans-Atlantic' is the first — the 'until 1808' that's the Africans landed, the 'Choptank' that's the river's slave market. The 'Second Ward' is the survived — the 'Black Cambridge' that's the independent quarter, the 'haven' that's the relative safety.","The 'auction' is the fled — the 'Tubman '49' that's the about to be sold, the 'byway' that's the 125 miles retraced. The 'replica lighthouse' is the now — the 'screw-pile' that's the '12 reconstruction, the 'park' that's the fishing where sales were. Long Wharf is the dark — the 'regional center' that's the slave trade's hub, the 'never saw families' that's the Deep South's finality.","The file keeps Long Wharf: the slave ships, the wheat crash sales, Tubman's auction eve, and the park's peaceful surface.","Long Wharf is the archive's Maryland file — the selling dock."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Long Wharf is the archive's Maryland file — the point of no return.","A wharf keeps its manifests — the file's suggestion being that Long Wharf's hold is the exported: the 'thousands' that's the sold south, the 'Tubman' that's the nearly auctioned here, and the 'park' that's the leisure over the pain."]}],"name":"Long Wharf at Cambridge","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","MARITIME","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The wharf—where the fugitives shipped north.","full_desc":"A historic site in Cambridge, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom, Long Wharf at Cambridge is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The wharf—where the fugitives shipped north. 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":"Cambridge","county":null,"state":"Maryland","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":38.554063,"lon":-76.077116,"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. Long Wharf at Cambridge's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 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":"Long Wharf at Cambridge 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. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","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}}