Mt. Pleasant Plains Cemetery at Walter Pierce Park
A historic site in Washington, Washington, D.C., a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Mt. Pleasant Plains Cemetery at Walter Pierce Park 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 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.
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Is Mt. Pleasant Plains Cemetery at Walter Pierce Park 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
Mt. Pleasant Plains is the covered — the '8,428 buried' that's the count kept, the 'park above' that's the city forgot. The 'Pearl's people' is the held — the 'Edmonson brothers' that's the '48 attempted, the '77 aboard' that's the largest try. The 'headstones removed' is the stripped — the 'sold off' that's the 20th century, the 'graves remain' that's the soil kept.
The 'Mack's survey' is the found — the 'Howard team' that's the '05 blocked, the 'names documented' that's the dead restored. The 'Magruder' is the returned — the '1814 fled' that's the British joined, the 'Nova Scotia' that's the freedom found then came back. The 'Quaker beside' is the older — the '1807' that's the first ground, the 'two cemeteries' that's the park layered.
The file keeps Mt. Pleasant: the 8,428, the Pearl's families, the covered graves, and the names restored.
Mt. Pleasant Plains is the archive's D.C. file — the cemetery under the playground.
Why this file matters
Mt. Pleasant Plains is the archive's D.C. file — 8,428 graves beneath a city park.
A park keeps its dead — the file's suggestion being that Mt. Pleasant's hold is the buried: the 'Pearl passengers' that's the escapees rested, the 'stones removed' that's the erasure tried, and the 'survey '05' that's the memory fought back.
Two accounts on file
HISTORIC_SITE
CEMETERY
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NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.
The cemetery—where the contraband dead were buried.
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National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
NPS Network to Freedom
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Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 30DC01, source row 535. 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.
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Documented history
NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Mt. Pleasant Plains Cemetery at Walter Pierce Park'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. The detail is preserved in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceMt. Pleasant Plains Cemetery at Walter Pierce Park 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. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
Verified historyNational Park Service
Sources on file
- 01Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01National Park Service · government · A1
- 02NPS Network to Freedom listingNational Park Service · government · A1
- 03Underground RailroadWikipedia · encyclopedia · A4
Field notes & open questions
Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 30DC01, source row 535. 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.