Old Jail of St. Mary's County
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.
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Is Old Jail of St. Mary's County 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
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.
Two accounts on file
NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.
The jail—where the captured fugitives were held.
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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 09MD09, source row 198. 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. 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.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceOld 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.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceOld 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.
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 09MD09, source row 198. 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.