{"id":3634,"slug":"mccague-house-williamsburg-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["McCague is the station — the record pins Williamsburg, but the 'North Star Station' stood in Ripley, the 'pork-packing' that's the fortune funded it. The 'Eliza' is the guest — the 'ice floe' that's the crossed the Ohio, the 'clothed and fed' that's the before next stop. The 'sofa' is the Stowe — the '1851' that's the sat and heard the story, the 'Uncle Tom' that's the Eliza immortalized.","The 'Lincoln' is the funded — the '1861' that's the 100,000 volunteers paid, the 'Liberty Memorial' that's the '12 plaque names. The 'Aunt Kitty' is the called — the 'Catherine Platter' that's the kinship network, the 'John Parker' that's the collaborated with. McCague is the funded — the 'pork fortune' that's the bought the refuge, the 'sofa' that's the Kansas museum holds.","The file keeps the McCagues: the North Star name, Eliza's ice, the Stowe sofa, and the Lincoln funding.","McCague House is the archive's Ohio file — the station named for the star."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["McCague House is the archive's Ohio file — the pork fortune's charity.","A house keeps its sofa — the file's suggestion being that McCague's hold is the literary: the 'Eliza' that's the fed the real one, the 'Stowe' that's the sat and wrote it immortal, and the 'North Star' that's the named what it guided to."]}],"name":"McCague House","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The McCague house—another Williamsburg station.","full_desc":"McCague House is a historic site in Williamsburg, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom. The McCague house—another Williamsburg station. It sits in the archive under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. 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. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. 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":"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":"McCague House is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. McCague House'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. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. 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}}