NEWTON UNION CEMETERY
Historic Site — 1601 W 4th St N, Newton, Iowa
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/newton-union-cemetery-iowa/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

A historic site in Newton, Iowa, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Newton Union Cemetery 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 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.

Newton Union is the ten — the 'freedom seekers' that's the Missouri escaped, the 'eight' that's the then enlisted. The '60th USCT' is the served — the 'Colored Troops' that's the continued fighting, the 'students' that's the documented each life. The '1854' is the founded — the 'urban cemetery' that's the Newton's own, the '2021' that's the Network listed.
The 'some alone' is the varied — the 'groups or single' that's the escape styles, the 'early '60s' that's the wartime flight. The 'students' is the method — the 'Hurto and Ernesti' that's the biographies found, the 'names recovered' that's the buried remembered. Newton is the continued — the 'escape then enlist' that's the doubled service, the 'ten graves' that's the story's proof.
The file keeps Newton Union: the ten seekers, the eight soldiers, the 60th's service, and the documented names.
Newton Union Cemetery is the archive's Iowa file — the escapees who enlisted.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Newton Union Cemetery is the archive's Iowa file — the freedom seekers who fought for it.
A cemetery keeps its enlistments — the file's suggestion being that Newton's hold is the doubled: the 'ten escaped' that's the reached Iowa, the 'eight enlisted' that's the returned to fight, and the 'students' that's the recovered their names.

HISTORY — 3 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Newton Union Cemetery'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. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.
· Newton Union Cemetery is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Newton Union Cemetery'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 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.
· The cemetery is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it. The reports keep the address on the map.

SOURCES — 3 cited
· Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01 — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223
· NPS Network to Freedom listing — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm
· Underground Railroad — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad

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