{"id":3635,"slug":"major-horace-and-lucinda-belknap-nye-house-aka-nye-potts-house-sardinia-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Nye House is the triangle — the record pins Sardinia, but 228 Adams stands in Putnam, the 'Muskingum, church, academy' that's the between them all. The '1839 riot' is the targeted — the 'mob' that's the attacked conductors, the 'presided' that's the Horace chaired the convention. The '51 members' is the Lucinda — the 'Female Anti-Slavery' that's the society president, the 'Stone Academy' that's the taught at a station.","The 'daughter's word' is the evidence — the 'always helped' that's the safe retreat quote, the 'secret' that's the both worked under. The 'strategic' is the spot — the 'hub' that's the activity centered, the 'between river and church' that's the escape geography. Nye is the couple — the 'Horace conductor' that's the unclear but present, the 'Lucinda leader' that's the documented public.","The file keeps the Nyes: the triangular location, the '39 mob, the daughter's testimony, and the 51-member society.","Nye-Potts House is the archive's Ohio file — the Putnam triangle's heart."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Nye-Potts House is the archive's Ohio file — the abolitionist geography's center.","A house keeps its position — the file's suggestion being that Nye's hold is the located: the 'between river, church, academy' that's the all stations near, the 'mob target' that's the proved the threat, and the 'daughter's memory' that's the secret confirmed."]}],"name":"Major Horace and Lucinda Belknap Nye House (aka: Nye-Potts House)","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The Nye house—where the major sheltered the fugitives.","full_desc":"A historic site in Sardinia, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom, Major Horace and Lucinda Belknap Nye House (aka: Nye-Potts House) is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The Nye house—where the major sheltered the fugitives. 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":"Sardinia","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":39.007113,"lon":-83.802101,"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. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 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.","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":"Major Horace and Lucinda Belknap Nye House (aka: Nye-Potts House) 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 record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. 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