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THE METHOD · READ FIRST
This is the place's claims record — the shelf where what is SAID about this ground is set against what the record HOLDS. The rule of the file, laid down for the whole build, is that rumors and myths are covered only in their dispelling: each story below is told whole — the tale as it is told, in its carriers' own words where the words survive — then given its earliest carrier found, the record's answer, and a verdict. A story with no carrier older than a content farm prints as exactly that. A story the record confirms prints as confirmed, at the record's size, which is sometimes larger than the tale. And this section's lead story is the place's central unexplained fact, worked end to end in the open so the method can be checked: nobody who has written about this place, in a hundred and fifty years, has ever explained how it got its name — and the one explanation in circulation turns out, on a full reading, to be stranger and better documented than this build itself first reported.