New Garden Friends Meeting and Cemetery
A historic site in Greensboro, North Carolina, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, New Garden Friends Meeting and Cemetery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. The archive files it under 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 New Garden Friends Meeting and Cemetery 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
New Garden is the rooted — the 'Dimery 1819' that's the earliest documented, the 'southern terminus' that's the line's start. The 'Vestal buried' is the kept — the 'First Conductor' that's the stone's claim, the 'Levi's home' that's the meeting's son. The 'war wounded' is the tended — the 'both armies' that's the Friends nursed, the 'meetinghouse hospital' that's the walls used.
The 'Grand Central' is the ran — the 'Quaker hotbed' that's the county's role, the 'Black-led' that's the truth kept. The 'woods beside' is the refuge — the '200 acres' that's the hiding kept, the 'tulip witness' that's the tree stood. New Garden is the source — the 'line begins' that's the freedom's start, the 'Coffins raised' that's the conductors made.
The file keeps New Garden: the Dimery case, the Coffin graves, the wartime hospital, and the terminus woods.
New Garden is the archive's North Carolina file — where the Underground Railroad began.
Why this file matters
New Garden is the archive's North Carolina file — the Quaker meeting that seeded the network.
A meetinghouse keeps its dead — the file's suggestion being that New Garden's hold is the first: the 'Dimery '19' that's the documented start, the 'Vestal's grave' that's the conductor kept, and the 'terminus' that's the south's edge.
Two accounts on file
HISTORIC_SITE
CEMETERY
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NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.
The meeting—where the Quakers sheltered the fugitives.
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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 33NC02, source row 562. 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. New Garden Friends Meeting and Cemetery'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. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceNew Garden Friends Meeting and Cemetery 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 is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.
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 33NC02, source row 562. 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.