Richard Potter Rescue Celebration Site
Richard Potter Rescue Celebration Site is a historic site in Port Deposit, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom. The celebration site—where the town honored the rescue. HauntHunt files it with Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.
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Is Richard Potter Rescue Celebration 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 rescue site is the hotel's memory — the Denton lodging where the freed boy was brought, the celebration that followed the return. The father was the rescuer — the retrieval from the Delaware sale, the trip that brought Richard home. The town was the welcome — the gathering that greeted them, the community that celebrated the boy.
The kidnapping was the danger — the apprenticeship that was the trap, the free status that was fragile. The site is the marked — the Network to Freedom designation, the hotel that's gone but remembered. The rescue site is the town's joy — the returned child who was celebrated, the freedom that was restored.
The file keeps the rescue site: the 1853 return, the hotel celebration, and the father's rescue.
The rescue site is the archive's Denton file — the welcome-home for the kidnapped boy.
Why this file matters
The rescue site is the archive's Denton file — the celebration of the return.
A site keeps its joy — the file's suggestion being that the rescue site's hold is the welcome: the boy who was brought back, the hotel where the town gathered, and the freedom that was won.
Documented history
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 record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceRichard Potter Rescue Celebration Site 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 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 ServiceThe celebration is documented. 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. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.
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.