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Samuel and Elizabeth Cuyler House Site

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A historic site in Wayne, New York, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Samuel and Elizabeth Cuyler House Site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. HauntHunt files it with 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.

Archive note: 3 conflicting records
Status
Operating
Designation
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
Coordinates
43.251, -77.075 · Approximate (county centroid)
County
Wayne

NPS public listing access field: Yes. This is a listing snapshot; current arrangements still require confirmation.

Is Samuel and Elizabeth Cuyler House 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

Cuyler House is the terminus — the 'northernmost station' that's the Lake Ontario shore, the 'Pultneyville' that's the between Oswego and Rochester. The 'Throop' is the captain — the 'relative's steamboats' that's the Canada carried, the 'Black Bob' that's the small boats sailed. The 'War of 1812' is the scarred — the 'British guns' that's the marks bore, the 'finest house' that's the country round.

The 'Speed' is the born — the 'slave-owning Virginia' that's the Elizabeth raised, the 'converted' that's the abolitionist became. The 'Samuel R. Ward' is the championed — the '1838' that's the Black abolitionist's right defended, the 'Declaration' that's the believed applied. Cuyler is the demolished — the '1930s' that's the torn for park, the 'Forman Park' that's the site today.

The file keeps the Cuyler house: the lake terminus, Throop's steamboats, Elizabeth's conversion, and the demolished site.

Cuyler House is the archive's New York file — the terminus on the lake.

Why this file matters

The Cuyler House site is the archive's New York file — where the lake crossing began.

A site keeps its scars — the file's suggestion being that Cuyler's hold is the layered: the '1812 marks' that's the war's damage kept, the 'slave-owner's daughter' that's the turned conductor, and the 'last station' that's the Canada one sail away.

Two accounts on file

Short Description
On file

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Also reported

The Cuyler house—the family’s station.

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

Historic Designation
On file

National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing

Also reported

NPS Network to Freedom

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

Research Notes
On file

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 15NY02, source row 323. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened.

Also reported

UGRR enrichment wave 2; VERIFY task auto-queued.

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

Documented history

  • 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. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. '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
  • Samuel and Elizabeth Cuyler House Site is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Samuel and Elizabeth Cuyler House 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. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.

    Verified historyNational Park Service
  • The house’s UGRR role is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

    Verified historyNational Park Service

Sources on file

Field notes & open questions

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 15NY02, source row 323. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened.

"Samuel and Elizabeth Cuyler House Site." HauntHunt dossier 0839, https://haunthunt.com/place/samuel-and-elizabeth-cuyler-house-site-new-york/ (file amended October 2, 2026).

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