OLD JAIL OF ST. MARY'S COUNTY
Historic Site — Box 212, Leonardtown, St. Mary’s County County, Maryland
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/old-jail-of-st-mary-s-county-maryland/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

A historic site in Leonardtown, Maryland, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Old Jail of St. Mary's County 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 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.

Old Jail is the 1876 — the 'sixth jail' that's the county's count, the 'three cells' that's the segregated upstairs. The 'nine' is the record — the 'five seekers, four abettors' that's the slavery arrests, the 'predecessor' that's the held them earlier. The 'Benjamin Hance' is the lynched — the 'only documented' that's the county's mob, the 'very cell' that's the exhibit stands.
The 'nuisance' is the replaced — the 'public disgrace' that's the '58 building called, the 'oldest sheriff' that's the nation's continuous. The '1945' is the closed — the 'sailors' that's the blamed for new jail, the 'museum' that's the cells preserved. Old Jail is the symbol — the 'built after' that's the slavery ended, the 'site's continuum' that's the 1637 began.
The file keeps Old Jail: the nine arrests, Hance's lynching, the segregated cells, and the '76 granite.
Old Jail of St. Mary's is the archive's Maryland file — the cell's witness.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Old Jail of St. Mary's is the archive's Maryland file — the jail that admits its dead.
A jail keeps its exhibit — the file's suggestion being that St. Mary's hold is the confessed: the 'Hance' that's the only lynching documented, the 'nine arrests' that's the counted honestly, and the 'built after' that's the still bears the predecessor's guilt.

HISTORY — 3 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Old Jail of St. Mary's County's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.
· Old Jail of St. Mary’s County is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.
· Old Jail of St. Mary's County is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

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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