SPRING HILL HISTORIC HOUSE
Historic Site — Massillon, Ohio
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/spring-hill-historic-house-massillon-ohio/

The Wales family farm—where the hidden room sheltered fugitives.

A historic site in Massillon, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom, Spring Hill Historic House is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The Wales family farm—where the hidden room sheltered fugitives. HauntHunt files it with 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.

Spring Hill is the Quaker station — the Rotch farm that hid the freedom seekers, the 1820 slavecatcher driven off by the foreman. The wool was the cover — the Merino sheep that were the business, the Spring House that was the hiding place. The Wales were the continuers — the three generations who kept the station, the farm that was bought from the Rotches.
The letters are the record — the 1821 accounts of the escapes, the Charity Rotch who wrote of helping. The preservation is the survival — the '66 foundation that saved it, the historic home that's the museum. Spring Hill is the documented station — the Quaker farm with the letters, the slavecatcher who was repelled.
The file keeps Spring Hill: the Rotch settlement, the UGRR operation, the Wales generations, and the preservation.
Spring Hill is the archive's Massillon file — the Quaker station with the records.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Spring Hill is the archive's Massillon file — the documented Underground Railroad farm.
A farm keeps its letters — the file's suggestion being that Spring Hill's hold is the documentation: the Rotch correspondence, the Wales who continued, and the station that was proven.

HISTORY — 3 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Spring Hill Historic House'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. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.
· Spring Hill Historic House 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 record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
· The farm’s hidden room is documented. 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. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. 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

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