Richard Potter Home Site
A historic site in Port Deposit, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom, Richard Potter Home Site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The magician’s home—where Potter was born free. It sits in the archive under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. 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 Richard Potter Home Site 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
The Potter home is the narrative's room — the Denton house where the kidnapping memoir was written, the 1866 account of the free boy sold. The kidnapping was the crime — the eleven-year-old taken to Delaware, the apprenticeship that was the cover. The rescue was the father's — the retrieval that brought him home, the welcome that the town gave.
The house is the survivor — the 1805 construction with the Roman numerals, the horsehair plaster behind the plexiglass. The fiber arts is the reuse — the FACES restoration, the museum that tells his story. The Potter home is the kidnapped boy's — the writing place for the stolen years, the house that's the memorial.
The file keeps the Potter home: the 1853 kidnapping, the father's rescue, the 1866 narrative, and the house.
The Potter home is the archive's Denton file — the kidnapped boy's writing room.
Why this file matters
The Potter home is the archive's Denton file — the kidnapping memoir's house.
A house keeps its author — the file's suggestion being that the Potter home's hold is the writing: the free boy sold as slave, the rescue that returned him, and the memoir that was written there.
Documented history
NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Richard Potter Home Site'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. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceRichard Potter Home Site 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. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.
Verified historyNational Park ServicePotter’s story is documented. 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 detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
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
UGRR enrichment wave 1; VERIFY task auto-queued.