{"id":3601,"slug":"new-richmond-ohio-waterfront-new-richmond-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The New Richmond waterfront is the town that fought — the 1862 rescue of LeRoy Lee from the slave catchers, the citizens who outnumbered them on Front Street. The Philanthropist was the paper — Birney's abolitionist press that started here, the '36 move to Cincinnati that brought the mob. The river was the crossing — the low water that made the wade, the Kentucky shore that was the origin.","The crate was the method — Jim packed as freight for the riverboat, the Coffin network that forwarded him. The churches were the base — the '34 resolutions against slavery, the Presbyterian and Baptist who housed the seekers. The waterfront is the designated — the Network to Freedom site, the town that faced the catchers down.","The file keeps the waterfront: the 1862 Lee rescue, the Philanthropist's start, the crate escape, and the abolitionist town.","New Richmond's waterfront is the archive's Clermont file — the town that armed itself."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["New Richmond's waterfront is the archive's Clermont file — the citizens' rescue.","A waterfront keeps its confrontation — the file's suggestion being that New Richmond's hold is the crowd: the citizens who freed Lee, the paper that started here, and the river that was the crossing."]}],"name":"New Richmond, Ohio, Waterfront","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 river village—where the fugitives crossed to the Ohio side.","full_desc":"A historic site in New Richmond, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom, New Richmond, Ohio, Waterfront is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The river village—where the fugitives crossed to the Ohio side. It sits in the archive 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":"New Richmond","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":38.973762,"lon":-84.281548,"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. 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. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","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":"New Richmond, Ohio, Waterfront is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. New Richmond, Ohio, Waterfront'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. 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 village’s UGRR history is documented. New Richmond, Ohio, Waterfront'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. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","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":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":3,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}