MARION HALL SITE
Historic Site — Northeast corner of Washington and 4th Street, Chariton, Des Moines County, Iowa
Status: Operating · Access: Restricted access
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/marion-hall-site-iowa/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

A historic site in Chariton, Iowa, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Marion Hall Site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. It sits in the archive under dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. Access is restricted, and the file says so plainly.

Marion Hall is the gone — the 'parking lot' that's the Third and Washington now, the '1853' that's the erected date. The 'Bundy' is the tried — the 'first Black legal case' that's the Iowa's slave trial, the 'disproved' that's the students found too late date. The 'crossover' is the Burlington — the 'Illinois across' that's the Mississippi bridge, the 'largest concentration' that's the Iowa's sites.
The 'Salter' is the neighbor — the 'First Congregational' that's the pastor conductor, the 'Edwin James' that's the 'rock star' buried. The 'students' is the researched — the 'Jurgensen's' that's the nominated fourteen, the 'newspaper' that's the corrected the record. Marion is the corrected — the 'once believed Daggs' that's the trial too early, the 'still certified' that's the Network kept it.
The file keeps Marion Hall: the Bundy trial, the parking-lot site, the student correction, and the crossover town.
Marion Hall is the archive's Iowa file — the site that outlived itself.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Marion Hall is the archive's Iowa file — the building gone, the case remembered.
A site keeps its correction — the file's suggestion being that Marion's hold is the revised: the '1853 too late' that's the students proved, the 'Bundy case' that's the still Iowa's first, and the 'parking lot' that's the certified anyway.

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 record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.
· Marion Hall Site is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Marion Hall Site's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
· The site’s history is documented. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

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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