LOUDOUN COUNTY COURTHOUSE
Historic Site — 18 E. Market Street, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/loudoun-county-courthouse-virginia/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

A historic site in Leesburg, Virginia, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Loudoun County Courthouse 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.

Loudoun is the trials — the 'Grimes 1840' that's the hack driver convicted, the 'Gant 1846' that's the stole his wife. The 'Yardley Taylor' is the '28 — the 'Quaker mapmaker' that's the fined for helping, the 'Evergreen' that's the Lincoln's center. The '1768' is the first — the 'three enslaved' that's the executed, the 'Mercer quartered' that's the courthouse justice.
The 'two years' is the Grimes — the 'penitentiary' that's the sentence served, the 'continued North' that's the undeterred. The 'stealing wife' is the Gant — the 'dismissed' that's the charges dropped, the '2003' that's the Network designation. Loudoun is the layered — the 'Declaration read' that's the '76 steps, the 'Lafayette '25' that's the visited with presidents.
The file keeps Loudoun: the Grimes trial, the Gant acquittal, the Taylor fine, and the 2003 designation.
Loudoun County Courthouse is the archive's Virginia file — the courtroom's conscience.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Loudoun County Courthouse is the archive's Virginia file — where helpers were tried.
A courthouse keeps its defendants — the file's suggestion being that Loudoun's hold is the prosecuted: the 'Grimes' that's the drove the carriage, the 'Gant' that's the stole his own wife, and the 'Taylor' that's the mapped his way to a fine.

HISTORY — 3 documented facts
· 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. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
· Loudoun County Courthouse is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Loudoun County Courthouse'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. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
· The courthouse’s history is documented. 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. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.

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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