Mary Ellen Pleasant Burial Site
A historic site in Napa, California, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Mary Ellen Pleasant Burial Site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. The archive files it under dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.
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Is Mary Ellen Pleasant Burial Site haunted?
No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.
The record — long form
Pleasant's grave is the chosen — the 'friend of John Brown' that's the epitaph requested, the 'Mother of Civil Rights' that's the name earned. The 'financed' is the backed — the 'Brown's raid' that's the money sent, the 'Archy Lee' that's the case funded. The 'millionaire' is the built — the 'first Black' that's the fortune made, the 'Gold Rush' that's the west carried.
The 'cable cars' is the fought — the 'integration sued' that's the '60s won, the 'testimony ban' that's the law broke. The 'mansion gone' is the lost — the 'eucalyptus kept' that's the trees left, the 'park named' that's the corner's mark. Pleasant's is the claimed — the 'wrote her own' that's the stone's words, the 'friend' that's the title chose.
The file keeps Pleasant: the chosen epitaph, the funded raid, the cable car suits, and the millionaire's end.
Pleasant's grave is the archive's California file — the woman who named herself Brown's friend.
Why this file matters
Pleasant's grave is the archive's California file — the millionaire who bankrolled abolition.
A stone keeps its inscription — the file's suggestion being that Pleasant's hold is the chosen: the 'friend of John Brown' that's the words picked, the 'Mother of Civil Rights' that's the work earned, and the 'fortune spent' that's the cause funded.
Two accounts on file
HISTORIC_SITE
CEMETERY
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NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.
The Mother of Civil Rights’ grave—where Pleasant rests.
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National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
NPS Network to Freedom
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Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 07CA02, source row 138. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened.
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Documented history
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 record keeps it — history, not lore.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceMary Ellen Pleasant Burial Site is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
Verified historyNational Park Service
Sources on file
- 01Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01National Park Service · government · A1
- 02NPS Network to Freedom listingNational Park Service · government · A1
- 03Underground RailroadWikipedia · encyclopedia · A4
Field notes & open questions
Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 07CA02, source row 138. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened.