{"id":2758,"slug":"martins-station-ewing-virginia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Martin's Station is the raced — the 'two weeks' that's the lead's size, the '21,000 acres' that's the prize's cost. The 'abandoned first' is the driven — the 'fall attack' that's the '69 end, the 'corn unripe' that's the crop's loss. The 'returned '75' is the rebuilt — the 'stockade new' that's the second's form, the 'Boone passed' that's the road's use.","The 'Wilderness Road' is the carried — the '300,000' that's the settlers' count, the 'buffalo path' that's the road's root. The '1775 only' is the ruled — the 'tools authentic' that's the build's law, the 'fence crossed' that's the year's line. Martin's Station is the copied — the 'reconstructed' that's the '02 build, the 'volunteers raised' that's the crew's form.","The file keeps Martin's Station: the raced claim, the driven first, the carried road, and the copied fort.","Martin's Station is the archive's Virginia file — the station that failed before it held."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Martin's Station is the archive's Virginia file — the first settlement on the Wilderness Road.","A station keeps its race — the file's suggestion being that Martin's hold is the won: the 'two weeks' that's the lead's edge, the 'abandoned' that's the first's fail, and the '1775 rule' that's the copy's truth."]}],"name":"Martin’s Station","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","FRONTIER"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"The 1769 station on the Wilderness Road—rebuilt on the frontier.","full_desc":"Martin’s Station is a site in Ewing, Virginia. The 1769 station on the Wilderness Road—rebuilt on the frontier. It sits in the archive under the frontier, dark history and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Ewing","county":null,"state":"Virginia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":36.637465,"lon":-83.429466,"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":null,"current_use":"Historic site / park","research_notes":"WV2 batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2378,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures at the fort. The reports at Martin’s Station are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The account appears in 'Wilderness Road / Martin’s Station'. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Wilderness Road / Martin’s Station","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness_Road","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1769 station is documented; the reconstruction is on site. Martin’s Station's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Wilderness Road / Martin’s Station'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1769","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Wilderness Road / Martin’s Station","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness_Road","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures at the fort. Martin’s Station's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The account appears in 'Wilderness Road / Martin’s Station'. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Wilderness Road / Martin’s Station","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness_Road","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","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":"Wilderness Road / Martin’s Station","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness_Road","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}