WILLIAM CHAPLIN ARREST SITE
Historic Site — Rockville, Maryland
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/william-chaplin-arrest-site-rockville-maryland/

The arrest—where the abolitionist Chaplin was caught.

A historic site in Rockville, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom, William Chaplin Arrest Site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The arrest—where the abolitionist Chaplin was caught. 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.

The Chaplin site is the ambush's spot — the Georgia Avenue shootout where the carriage was stopped, the fence rail through the spokes. The fugitives were the senators' — Toombs's White and Stephens's Allen, the property of the Confederacy's future. The agent was the unarmed — the Chaplin who drove, the beating that he took for the passengers.
The jail was the Rockville — the thirteen weeks in Maryland, the $19,000 bail that the abolitionists raised. The career was the network — the Pearl's seventy-seven, the Torrey successor who ran the D.C. line. The arrest site is the shootout's — the rail through the wheel, the agent who was beaten.
The file keeps the site: the 1850 ambush, the senators' fugitives, the Rockville jail, and the $19,000 bail.
The Chaplin site is the archive's Rockville file — the ambushed agent's road.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Chaplin site is the archive's Rockville file — the Underground Railroad's shootout.
A site keeps its ambush — the file's suggestion being that Chaplin's hold is the attack: the senators' slaves he carried, the rail through the wheel, and the bail that the abolitionists paid.

HISTORY — 3 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. William Chaplin Arrest Site's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
· William Chaplin Arrest Site 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. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
· The 1850 arrest is documented. William Chaplin Arrest Site'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. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

SOURCES — 3 cited
· Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01 — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223
· NPS Network to Freedom listing — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm
· Underground Railroad — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad

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