WILLIAMSBURG CEMETERY Cemetery — Williamsburg, Ohio Status: Operating · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/williamsburg-cemetery-williamsburg-ohio/ The cemetery—where the Hubers and the conductors rest. Williamsburg Cemetery is a cemetery in Williamsburg, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom. The cemetery—where the Hubers and the conductors rest. The archive files it under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The grounds are open to visitors. Williamsburg Cemetery buries the conductors. Three Underground Railroad operatives lie in the township cemetery on Gay Street: Charles B. Huber, Dr. Leavitt Thaxter Pease, and Samuel Peterson — the men who ran Williamsburg's role as the northern terminal of the Clermont County spur, the last stop on the line that ran up from the Ohio River through Felicity and Bethel. Huber was the operation's heart — a large man, by the county's account, who feared no one, whose fiery antislavery speeches ended in fisticuffs and who quietly picked off the community's bright young men to recruit them. His engineer was Marcus Sims, a Kentucky-born biracial man who drove the wagons along the back roads between Brown County, Martinsville, and Williamsburg. One night heavy rain stranded the work — seventeen fugitives in the conductor's hands, each hour multiplying the risk of a federal crime carrying six months in jail and a thousand-dollar fine. All seventeen made it through. Peterson the stonemason carried food to the fugitives hidden at Huber's place and drove them by wagon to the next stop; Dr. Pease's practice gave the network cover. The county's Freedom Trail marks the cemetery on the same route that holds the Felicity and Moscow stations — the graveyard where the men who ran the traffic now lie together. Williamsburg Cemetery is the archive's conductors' file — the graveyard holding Huber, Pease, and Peterson, the operatives of the last station on the Clermont spur, where seventeen fugitives once waited out a storm in a wagon on the back roads. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Williamsburg Township Cemetery is the archive's burial-of-operatives file — the Clermont County graveyard holding three documented Underground Railroad men, at the north terminal of the spur that ran fugitives up from the river through Felicity. A cemetery that holds conductors keeps its route — the file's suggestion being that Williamsburg's hold is the trio: Huber, Pease, and Peterson buried in the town that was the last stop, where Sims's wagons once ran the back roads in the rain. HISTORY — 2 documented facts · NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Williamsburg 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. 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. · Williamsburg 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. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. 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 — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/