{"id":3590,"slug":"union-baptist-cemetery-cincinnati-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Union Baptist Cemetery is Cincinnati's oldest surviving African American cemetery — the ground where the Black community buried its own when the white cemeteries wouldn't take them, holding the abolition era's and the community's dead together.","The file's documented spine is the cemetery's founding purpose: a burial ground for a people denied burial elsewhere, its stones holding the Black community's dead from the freedom era forward — the Network to Freedom listing marking its movement ties."]},{"heading":"The community's ground","paragraphs":["The file's legend layer is empty — Union Baptist's claim is its documented role: a cemetery that was the community's own, where the people the city wouldn't bury were laid by their own, the stones the archive's record of a parallel city.","The cemetery's endurance is the file's register — a Black burial ground that survived when so many were lost, the ground holding the community's memory against the erasure."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Union Baptist is the archive's community-cemetery file — Cincinnati's oldest Black burial ground, a Network to Freedom site holding the community the white cemeteries refused. The documented ground is the record.","A cemetery that held the excluded keeps them still — the file's suggestion being that Union Baptist's ground is where the community's memory stayed."]}],"name":"Union Baptist Cemetery","aliases":[],"type":"CEMETERY","type_label":"Cemetery","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","CEMETERY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["cemeteries","dark-history"],"desc":"The Black cemetery—where the community’s dead rest.","full_desc":"Union Baptist Cemetery is a cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom. The Black cemetery—where the community’s dead rest. HauntHunt files it with Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The grounds are open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Cincinnati","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":39.140183,"lon":-84.505829,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"NPS Network to Freedom","current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"UGRR enrichment wave 1; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. A cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio with this much on record gives the file real ground to stand on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"Union Baptist Cemetery is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. The burial ground'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'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"The cemetery is documented. Union Baptist Cemetery's history is documented — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the ghost stories. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Public cemetery; generally open during daylight hours. Be respectful of active burials; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Underground Railroad","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Union Baptist Cemetery","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Baptist_Cemetery","desc":"Historic cemetery in Ohio","extract":"Union Baptist Cemetery located at 4933 Cleves Warsaw Pike, in the Price Hill neighborhood, is a registered historic district in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 2002. It contains a single contributing building. The cemetery is the oldest Baptist African-American cemetery in Cincinnati.","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Union_Baptist_Cemetery_in_Cincinnati.jpg/960px-Union_Baptist_Cemetery_in_Cincinnati.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":104,"lat":39.11666667,"lon":-84.60277778},"counts":{"claims":0,"history":3,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}