Turkey Point Farm & Light Station
A historic site in North East, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom, Turkey Point Farm & Light Station is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The light station—where the keeper’s farm hid the fugitives. It sits in the archive 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.
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Is Turkey Point Farm & Light Station 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
Turkey Point is the women's light — the 86 of 114 years that the keepers were female, the Fannie Salter who was the last civilian woman keeper in the nation. The bluff is the height — the hundred-foot drop that made it Maryland's tallest focal plane, the C&D Canal entrance that it marked. The tower is the Donahoo — the 1833 masonry that still stands, the keeper's house that was rebuilt.
The succession was the tradition — the widows who took over, the daughters who continued. The Coolidge was the intervention — the presidential order that appointed Fannie, the senator she appealed to. Turkey Point is the matriarchy — the women who kept the light, the line that ran the station.
The file keeps Turkey Point: the 1833 tower, the women keepers, the Coolidge appointment, and the bluff.
Turkey Point is the archive's North East file — the women's lighthouse.
Why this file matters
Turkey Point is the archive's North East file — the female keepers' station.
A light keeps its lineage — the file's suggestion being that Turkey Point's hold is the women: the 86 years they served, the Coolidge who appointed the last, and the tower that's still lit.
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. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceTurkey Point Farm & Light Station 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 detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.
Verified historyNational Park ServiceThe station is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest. The reports keep the address on the map.
Verified historyNational Park Service
Sources on file
- 01Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01National Park Service · government · A1
- 02NPS Network to Freedom listingNational Park Service · government · A1
- 03Underground RailroadWikipedia · encyclopedia · A4
Field notes & open questions
UGRR enrichment wave 1; VERIFY task auto-queued.