PETTENGILL HOUSE
Historic Site — 201 SW Jefferson St, Cambridge, Peoria County, Illinois
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/pettengill-house-illinois/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

A historic site in Cambridge, Illinois, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Pettengill House 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.

Pettengill is the cellar — the 'eyewitness' that's the saw runaways through windows, the 'Liberty and Jefferson' that's the Civic Center now. The 'skiff' is the crossing — the 'slave hunters overtook' that's the swamp thicket, the 'one reached' that's the boat made it. The 'Lucy and Moses' is the pair — the 'Female Anti-Slavery' that's the she founded, the 'conductor' that's the he rowed.
The 'Democratic town' is the turned — the 'Southern-sympathizing' that's the converted Peoria, the 'unpopular' that's the dangerous stance. The 'torn down' is the gone — the '1910' that's the Jefferson Hotel, the 'Civic Center' that's the site today. Pettengill is the marked — the '2005 Network' that's the site listed, the 'sculpture' that's the Preston Jackson commemorates.
The file keeps Pettengill: the cellar windows, the skiff that saved one, the converted town, and the Civic Center site.
Pettengill House is the archive's Illinois file — the abolitionists' cellar.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Pettengill House site is the archive's Illinois file — the station under a civic center.
A site keeps its witness — the file's suggestion being that Pettengill's hold is the seen: the 'cellar windows' that's the runaways spotted, the 'one reached the boat' that's the partial rescue, and the 'torn down but listed' that's the memory's monument.

HISTORY — 3 documented facts
· 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. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.
· Pettengill House 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. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.
· The house’s UGRR role is documented. Pettengill House's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. 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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