ROKEBY MUSEUM Historic Site — 4334 Route 7, Ferrisburgh, Addison County, Vermont Status: Operating · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/rokeby-museum-vermont/ NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. A historic site in Ferrisburgh, Vermont, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Rokeby Museum 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 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors. Rokeby is the Underground Railroad site that kept its letters. The Ferrisburgh farm held four generations of Robinsons from 1793 to 1961 — Quakers who came from Newport, built Vermont's great Merino sheep operation, and in the second generation produced Rowland Thomas and Rachel Gilpin Robinson, radical abolitionists who made the farm a documented station: Rachel kept the house free of slave-made goods, and the family sheltered self-emancipators whose names survive in the family papers. The documentation is what makes Rokeby exceptional — the National Park Service calls it among the best-documented Underground Railroad sites in the country, because the Robinsons wrote things down. The letters survive: fugitives named, routes described, the network's operation recorded by the family that ran it. The same generation founded the integrated Brick Academy in 1839, educating Black and white children together a generation before the war. The farm kept everything else too — the sheep dip built into the rock, nine outbuildings, the 1780s house with the family's papers and possessions intact through Elizabeth Robinson's 1961 death, when the property passed to become the museum. The 'Seeking Freedom' exhibit now tells the harder whole story — including that earlier Robinson generations had themselves enslaved people, the family's own arc from enslavers to abolitionists part of the record. Rokeby is the archive's letters file — the Vermont sheep farm where four generations of Robinsons went from enslavers to documented UGRR stationmasters, the family papers naming the freedom seekers they sheltered. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Rokeby Museum is the archive's documented-station file — the Ferrisburgh farm the NPS ranks among America's best-documented Underground Railroad sites, where the Robinson letters name the people the station carried. A farm that wrote it down keeps its record — the file's suggestion being that Rokeby's hold is the correspondence: the rare UGRR site where the freedom seekers have names because the abolitionists kept their letters. HISTORY — 2 documented facts · NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Rokeby Museum'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. The detail is preserved in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The date is part of the site's documented spine. · Rokeby Museum 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 record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on. 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 — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/