{"id":3681,"slug":"mouth-of-swann-creek-escape-site-charlestown-maryland","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Swan Creek is the mass escape — the Diggs Point flight from the mouth of the creek, the enslaved who left the Potomac's shore. The fleet was the opportunity — the British in the Chesapeake, the War of 1812's offer of freedom. The point is the site — the Diggs land at the creek's mouth, the Fort Washington ground that holds it.","The escape was the scale — the group that self-emancipated together, the water route that took them out. The designation is the memory — the Network to Freedom listing, the park that marks the spot. Swan Creek is the Potomac's freedom — the point where the enslaved left, the mass escape that's the site's name.","The file keeps Swan Creek: the Diggs Point escape, the British fleet, and the Network listing.","Swan Creek is the archive's Potomac file — the point of the mass escape."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Swan Creek is the archive's Potomac file — the Diggs Point exodus.","A creek keeps its mouth — the file's suggestion being that Swan Creek's hold is the water: the mass escape to the ships, the war that made the offer, and the point that marks it."]}],"name":"Mouth of Swann Creek Escape Site","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD","RIVER"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"The creek mouth—where the fugitives crossed to the free side.","full_desc":"A historic site in Charlestown, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom, Mouth of Swann Creek Escape Site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The creek mouth—where the fugitives crossed to the free side. The archive files it under 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":"Charlestown","county":null,"state":"Maryland","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":39.582121,"lon":-75.986712,"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. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","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":"Mouth of Swann Creek Escape Site is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Mouth of Swann Creek Escape Site'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. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","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 escape route is documented. Mouth of Swann Creek Escape Site's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. 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