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Tabor Cemetery

Tabor, Iowa26502 Waubonsie Avenue1 min readFile amended Directions

A historic site in Tabor, Iowa, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Tabor Cemetery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. It sits in the archive under 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: 4 conflicting records
Status
Operating
Designation
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
Coordinates
40.895, -95.674 · Approximate (city centroid)
County
Mills

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

Is Tabor Cemetery 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

Tabor Cemetery is the founders — the 'Oberlin ideals' that's the college town built, the 'Gaston, Todd, Adams' that's the buried here. The 'John Brown' is the sheltered — the 'four months '57' that's the trained in square, the 'twelve liberated' that's the February '59 arrived. The 'chilled viper' is the preached — the 'Todd's sermon' that's the National Judgment, the 'fathers' bondage' that's the founders' hypocrisy named.

The 'first rescue' is the July 4 — the '1854' that's the Dennis family stopped, the 'six enslaved' that's the Adams freed. The 'mosquitoes' is the moved — the 'Civil Bend' that's the malaria drove up, the 'Mount Tabor' that's the named for Nazareth. The cemetery is the witness — the 'Todd's home' that's the station nearby, the 'founders' that's the abolitionists resting.

The file keeps Tabor: the Oberlin colony, Brown's four months, the July 4 rescue, and the founders' graves.

Tabor Cemetery is the archive's Iowa file — where John Brown wintered.

Why this file matters

Tabor Cemetery is the archive's Iowa file — the abolitionist town's dead.

A cemetery keeps its founders — the file's suggestion being that Tabor's hold is the originated: the 'built to fight slavery' that's the town's purpose, the 'Brown's four months' that's the arsenal sheltered, and the 'chilled viper' that's the sermon remembered.

Two accounts on file

Place Type
On file

HISTORIC_SITE

Also reported

CEMETERY

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Short Description
On file

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Also reported

The abolitionist cemetery—where Tabor’s founders rest.

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Historic Designation
On file

National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing

Also reported

NPS Network to Freedom

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Research Notes
On file

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 22IA01, source row 409. 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 3; VERIFY task auto-queued.

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Documented history

  • NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Tabor Cemetery's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore.

    Verified historyNational Park Service
  • Tabor Cemetery 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. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore.

    Verified historyNational Park Service
  • The cemetery is documented. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry. The claim holds its place in the ledger.

    Verified historyNational Park Service

Sources on file

Field notes & open questions

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 22IA01, source row 409. 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.

"Tabor Cemetery." HauntHunt dossier 0895, https://haunthunt.com/place/tabor-cemetery-iowa/ (file amended October 2, 2026).

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