{"id":3695,"slug":"malones-methodist-episcopal-church-malones-chapel-galena-maryland","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Malone's is the '64 — the record pins Galena, but the church stands in Madison, Dorchester County, the 'first' that's the four communities' congregation. The 'Vincent Green' is the returned — the '1827 fled' that's the captured and sold, the '1845 free' that's the came back a founder. The 'footpaths' is the network — the 'four communities' that's the woods connected, the 'faith before freedom' that's the formed underground.","The 'Tubman' is the neighbor — the 'oral tradition' that's the lived near with John, the 'Jacob Jackson' that's the agent attended. The '1895' is the rebuilt — the 'larger sanctuary' that's the congregation grew, the 'five Civil War' that's the veterans buried. Malone's is the emancipated — the 'as soon as war ended' that's the founded their church, the 'Network site' that's the recognized.","The file keeps Malone's: the four footpaths, Green's return, the '64 founding, and Tubman's nearby years.","Malone's Church is the archive's Maryland file — the footpaths' congregation."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Malone's Church is the archive's Maryland file — the church built the moment slavery ended.","A chapel keeps its founder — the file's suggestion being that Malone's hold is the immediate: the '1864' that's the emancipation's first fruit, the 'Green returned' that's the eighteen years later free, and the 'footpaths' that's the carried faith before law allowed it."]}],"name":"Malone’s Methodist Episcopal Church (Malone’s Chapel)","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","RELIGIOUS","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The chapel—where the congregation aided the escapes.","full_desc":"A historic site in Galena, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom, Malone’s Methodist Episcopal Church (Malone’s Chapel) is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The chapel—where the congregation aided the escapes. 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":"Galena","county":null,"state":"Maryland","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":39.342465,"lon":-75.878873,"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. Malone’s Methodist Episcopal Church (Malone’s Chapel)'s past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. 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":"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":"Malone’s Methodist Episcopal Church (Malone’s Chapel) 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'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","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}}