{"id":3580,"slug":"mount-pleasant-historic-district-mount-pleasant-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Mount Pleasant was Ohio's abolitionist village — the Quaker settlement where Benjamin Lundy published 'The Genius of Universal Emancipation' and the whole town became an Underground Railroad station, its documented antislavery history making it one of the movement's most important communities.","The file's documented spine is the village's conviction: a town founded on Quaker antislavery principle, where the abolitionist press was printed and the freedom network ran openly — a whole community as a station."]},{"heading":"The abolitionist village","paragraphs":["The file's legend layer is empty — Mount Pleasant's claim is its documented role: the town that printed the abolitionist newspaper and hid the escaping in its cellars, the preserved village's houses being the network's surviving stations.","The district's preservation is the file's register — a village that kept its abolitionist buildings, the houses where Lundy's press ran and the fugitives were hidden still standing."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Mount Pleasant is the archive's abolitionist-town file — a Quaker village that was a whole community's Underground Railroad station, its documented history needing no ghosts.","A village that printed freedom and hid the escaping keeps that record — the file's suggestion being that Mount Pleasant's houses hold the movement's truest archive."]}],"name":"Mount Pleasant Historic District","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","RELIGIOUS","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The Quaker village—where Lundy published The Genius of Universal Emancipation.","full_desc":"Mount Pleasant Historic District is a historic site in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom. The Quaker village—where Lundy published The Genius of Universal Emancipation. It sits in the archive under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Mount Pleasant","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":40.175893,"lon":-80.799654,"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. Mount Pleasant Historic District's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","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 Pleasant Historic District is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Mount Pleasant Historic District'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. 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 village’s abolitionist history is documented. 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 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. 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