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McCoy Cabin Site at Starkweather Farm

Plymouth, Michigan1266 Huron River Drive1 min readFile amended Directions

A historic site in Plymouth, Michigan, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, McCoy Cabin Site at Starkweather Farm is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. HauntHunt files it with 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.

Archive note: 4 conflicting records
Status
Operating
Designation
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
Coordinates
42.371, -83.468 · Approximate (city centroid)
County
Washtenaw

NPS public listing access field: No. This is a listing snapshot; current arrangements still require confirmation.

Is McCoy Cabin Site at Starkweather Farm 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

McCoy is the returned — the 'Canada' that's the escaped to, the '1852' that's the came back to Ypsilanti. The 'false bottom' is the wagon — the 'cigars' that's the cover cargo, the 'Wyandotte' that's the Detroit market route. The 'Real McCoy' is the son — the 'Elijah' that's the inventor born, the 'lubricating cup' that's the phrase's origin.

The 'Starkweather' is the farm — the 'cabin behind' that's the McCoys lived in, the '400 acres' that's the orchards. The 'Pearl' is the boat — the 'Mr. Bush' that's the ferried at Wyandotte, the 'not known' that's the what Starkweathers knew. McCoy is the doubled — the 'self-liberated' that's the turned conductor, the 'cabin gone' that's the farmhouse survives.

The file keeps McCoy: the false-bottom cigars, the Canada return, Elijah's invention, and the vanished cabin.

McCoy Cabin Site is the archive's Michigan file — the cigar wagon's secret.

Why this file matters

McCoy Cabin Site is the archive's Michigan file — the parents of 'The Real McCoy'.

A site keeps its cargo — the file's suggestion being that McCoy's hold is the doubled: the 'false bottom' that's the cigars over humans, the 'Elijah' that's the born to conductors, and the 'cabin gone' that's the farmhouse's shadow.

Two accounts on file

Short Description
On file

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Also reported

The cabin site—where the family sheltered the fugitives.

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

Public Access
On file

RESTRICTED

Also reported

PUBLIC

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Historic Designation
On file

National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing

Also reported

NPS Network to Freedom

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

Research Notes
On file

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 23MI01, source row 433. 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.

Also reported

UGRR enrichment wave 3; VERIFY task auto-queued.

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

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 fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

    Verified historyNational Park Service
  • McCoy Cabin Site at Starkweather Farm 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. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

    Verified historyNational Park Service
  • The site’s UGRR role is documented. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.

    Verified historyNational Park Service

Sources on file

Field notes & open questions

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 23MI01, source row 433. 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.

"McCoy Cabin Site at Starkweather Farm." HauntHunt dossier 0911, https://haunthunt.com/place/mccoy-cabin-site-at-starkweather-farm-michigan/ (file amended October 2, 2026).

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