{"id":3653,"slug":"mount-clare-baltimore-maryland","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Mount Clare was built in 1760 — Baltimore's oldest surviving colonial house, the Georgian mansion of merchant Charles Carroll the Barrister in what's now Carroll Park, the city's oldest house museum holding its founding merchant's world.","The file's documented spine is the house's primacy: the oldest colonial building in the city, its rooms and grounds keeping the era when Baltimore was a merchant town — and the Network to Freedom listing marking the enslaved community the household held."]},{"heading":"The merchant's whole household","paragraphs":["The file's legend layer is empty — Mount Clare's claim is the documented house: a 1760 mansion whose enslaved workers' presence the Network to Freedom record preserves, the colonial household's full register kept.","The park's ground is the file's register — a merchant's estate turned city park, the house and grounds holding both the Carroll family's history and the people they owned."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Mount Clare is the archive's oldest-house file — Baltimore's oldest colonial mansion, its Network to Freedom listing documenting the household's enslaved people. The 1760 house is the record; the full household is the point.","A mansion that kept its enslaved workers' history keeps the whole household — the file's suggestion being that Mount Clare's ground remembers everyone who worked it."]}],"name":"Mount Clare","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_ESTATE","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The 1760 mansion—where the Carrolls’ enslaved worked.","full_desc":"A historic site in Baltimore, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom, Mount Clare is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1760 mansion—where the Carrolls’ enslaved worked. HauntHunt files it with Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Baltimore","county":null,"state":"Maryland","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":39.300032,"lon":-76.610476,"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. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","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":"Mount Clare 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 fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","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}},{"description":"The 1760 house is documented. Mount Clare's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest. The claim holds its place in the ledger.","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":{"title":"Mount Clare","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Clare","desc":"Topics referred to by the same term","extract":"Mount Clare may refer to:\n\nMount Clare (Maryland), historic house (1763) in Baltimore, Maryland, USA\nMount Clare (Roehampton), historic house (1773) in Roehampton, south west London\nMount Clare Shops, historic railroad complex founded by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad\nMount Clare Station, a former railroad station in Baltimore which is now part of the National Museum of Railroad History & Innovation\nMount Clare, Illinois\nMount Clare, Nebraska\nMount Clare, West Virginia","img":null,"score":89},"counts":{"claims":0,"history":3,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}