Dossier 3711Historic SiteMedium 68

Roedown Farm

Davidsonville, Maryland1 min readFile amended October 2, 2026

A historic site in Davidsonville, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom, Roedown Farm is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The farm—where the steeplechase estate’s slaves worked. The archive files it 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.

Archive note: 3 sources on file

Status

Operating

Access

Open to public

Designation

NPS Network to Freedom

Signal: cold trace

Is Roedown Farm haunted?

No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.

Dark History Historic Sites

The record — long form

Roedown is the two histories — the Brogden plantation with the eighty enslaved, the Marlborough Hunt races that ran thirty-six years. The Parker was the escapee — the seventeen-year-old who fled, the Christiana Resistance that he led later. The steeplechase was the event — the five thousand on the hillside, the tailgating that was the county's spring.

The sale was the end — the Clagett death that stopped it, the '10 last race that was the final. The farm is the continuity — the horse operation that continues, the sustainable agriculture that's the new mission. Roedown is the layered ground — the slave plantation under the races, the Parker who became the resistor.

The file keeps Roedown: the Brogden plantation, the Parker escape, the Marlborough races, and the sale.

Roedown is the archive's Davidsonville file — the plantation that raced.

Why this file matters

Roedown is the archive's Davidsonville file — the enslaver's land that hosted the races.

A farm keeps its layers — the file's suggestion being that Roedown's hold is the contrast: the eighty enslaved who worked it, the Parker who fled to fight, and the steeplechase that covered it.

Documented history

NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Roedown Farm'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. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.
Verified historyNational Park Service
Roedown Farm 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. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.
Verified historyNational Park Service
The farm 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. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest. It remains the site's standing claim.
Verified historyNational Park Service