{"id":3633,"slug":"marcus-sims-the-charles-huber-tannery-williamsburg-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Huber is the tanner — the 'Gay Street' that's the house hid them, the 'farm miles away' that's the real refuge. The 'armed guards' is the bluff — the 'stationed around home' that's the hunters distracted, the '500' that's the sources claim helped. The 'Sims' is the partner — the 'free African American' that's the tannery co-worker, the 'also helped' that's the shared the risk.","The 'Williamsburg' is the Clermont — the 'stationmaster' that's the titled role, the 'confuse hunters' that's the strategy staged. The 'two sites' is the listed — the 'homesite' that's the town, the 'farm' that's the country, both Network. Huber is the deceived — the 'guards' that's the announced falsely, the 'miles away' that's the truth hidden.","The file keeps Huber and Sims: the tannery partnership, the armed-guard bluff, the 500 helped, and the two Network sites.","Sims-Huber Tannery is the archive's Ohio file — the bluff that worked."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Sims-Huber Tannery is the archive's Ohio file — the partnership that staged decoys.","A tannery keeps its guards — the file's suggestion being that Huber's hold is the theatrical: the 'armed men' that's the drew attention to empty house, the 'farm miles away' that's the actual passengers, and the 'Sims' that's the Black partner sharing risk."]}],"name":"Marcus Sims-The Charles Huber Tannery","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","INDUSTRIAL","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The tannery—where Huber’s shop hid the fugitives.","full_desc":"A historic site in Williamsburg, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom, Marcus Sims-The Charles Huber Tannery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The tannery—where Huber’s shop hid the fugitives. The archive files it under 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":"Williamsburg","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":39.058144,"lon":-84.048347,"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 record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","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":"Marcus Sims-The Charles Huber Tannery 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. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. 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":"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}}