{"id":3649,"slug":"westwood-cemetery-oberlin-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Westwood is the rested — the 'runaway slaves' that's the stayed to die free, the 'abolitionists' that's the beside them buried. The 'Dobbins' is the youngest — the 'four years old' that's the mother's trust, the 'died en route' that's the freedom's price. The 'Cox' is the daring — the 'posed as slave' that's the catchers baited, the 'Lovejoy's press' that's the river retrieved.","The '1864' is the dedicated — the '47 acres' that's the Morgan Street, the '9,200 burials' that's the only cemetery. The 'Oberlin' is the safe — the 'so safe' that's the fugitives stayed, the 'Faces of Change' that's the tour's name. Westwood is the enrolled — the 'college town' that's the integrated educated, the 'North Star' that's the Douglass's direction ended.","The file keeps Westwood: the stayed-to-die, the child's grave, Cox's disguise, and the '64 dedication.","Westwood is the archive's Ohio file — where the escaped chose to rest."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Westwood is the archive's Ohio file — the cemetery where fugitives stayed.","A cemetery keeps its stayed — the file's suggestion being that Westwood's hold is the settled: the 'so safe' that's the journey ended, the 'posed as slave' that's the rescuer's method, and the 'four years old' that's the youngest's rest."]}],"name":"Westwood 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 Oberlin cemetery—where the rescuers rest.","full_desc":"A cemetery in Oberlin, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom, Westwood Cemetery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The Oberlin cemetery—where the rescuers rest. It sits in the archive under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The grounds are open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Oberlin","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":41.286063,"lon":-82.219565,"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. Westwood Cemetery's history is documented — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the ghost stories. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. 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":"Westwood Cemetery is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Westwood Cemetery's history is documented — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the ghost stories. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","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":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":2,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}