PARSON'S CREEK: KEENE FAMILY ESCAPE ROUTE
Historic Site — Parsons Creek at Route 16, Madison, Dorchester County, Maryland
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/parson-s-creek-keene-family-escape-route-maryland/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Parson's Creek: Keene Family Escape Route is a historic site in Madison, Maryland, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. It sits in the archive under dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 4 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.

Parson's Creek is the dug route — the seven-mile canal that the enslaved cut by hand, the 1832 Keene family escape down its length. The Stewart canal was the infrastructure — the twenty years of digging, the timber that floated to the ships. The family was the whole — Joe and Nelley with their eight children, the April flight that took them all.
The network was the mariners — the Black boatmen who carried the word, the secret communication that Tubman learned. The creek is the marker — the Network to Freedom designation, the water that was the road out. Parson's Creek is the canal's freedom — the ditch that was dug for timber, the family who used it for liberty.
The file keeps Parson's Creek: the hand-dug canal, the 1832 Keene escape, and the mariners' network.
Parson's Creek is the archive's Dorchester file — the canal that was the escape route.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Parson's Creek is the archive's Dorchester file — the family escape down the canal.
A creek keeps its ditch — the file's suggestion being that Parson's hold is the canal: the twenty years of enslaved digging, the ten who floated out, and the waterway that was the route.

HISTORY — 4 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
· Parson’s Creek: Keene Family Escape Route 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. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine.
· The Keene escape is documented. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. 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. The report keeps its place in the record.
· Parson's Creek: Keene Family Escape Route is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Parson's Creek: Keene Family Escape Route'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's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.

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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