{"id":805,"slug":"william-and-phoebe-wright-burial-site-pennsylvania","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Wright burial is the teacher — the 'Pennington sheltered' that's the six months hidden, the 'taught to read' that's the former schoolmaster. The 'name taken' is the honored — the 'William' that's the middle name adopted, the 'Pennington' that's the Yale professor became. The 'York Springs' is the Quaker — the 'Adams County' that's the border county, the 'Black Ducks' that's the students forwarded.","The '1827' is the arrived — the '19 years old' that's the Washington fled, the 'mischief slavery' that's the literacy revealed. The 'wages paid' is the dignified — the 'worked for pay' that's the first earnings, the 'six days' that's the walked from Maryland. The Wrights are the foundation — the 'Pennington's start' that's the minister made, the 'burial site' that's the teachers' rest.","The file keeps the Wrights: the sheltered student, the name borrowed, the wages paid, and the Yale professor.","The Wright burial is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the teachers who made a scholar."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Wright burial site is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the Quakers who taught Pennington.","A grave keeps its student — the file's suggestion being that the Wrights' hold is the taught: the 'William adopted' that's the name carried, the 'six months' that's the fugitive educated, and the 'mischief undone' that's the slavery's theft reversed."]}],"name":"William and Phoebe Wright Burial Site","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","CEMETERY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.","full_desc":"A historic site in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, William and Phoebe Wright Burial Site 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.","address":"T-627-East Side, RD 2","city":"Wrightsville","county":"Adams","state":"Pennsylvania","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":40.023875,"lon":-76.531207,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"NPS public listing access field: Yes. This is a listing snapshot; current arrangements still require confirmation.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing","current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 12PA06, source row 265. 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. ","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":62.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.35,"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. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. 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. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","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":"William and Phoebe Wright Burial Site is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. William and Phoebe Wright Burial Site's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. 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 record keeps it — history, not lore.","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 Wrights’ work is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. 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