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The Street That Didn't Exist: Hadler's Secret and the Burned Woman
The Street That Didn't Exist: Hadler's Secret and the Burned Woman
Cold curiosity: a federal census page lists twelve people on a street that official township records swore away more than a century ago, including four boarders recorded with only first names and a death filed in the wrong county - so who erased Hadler Street and why would powerful locals insist the doctor keep quiet?
In this episode, we lay out the surviving documents and witness actions that mark a deliberate removal from the record: a lone census page, a county road register that omits the street, a dismissed complaint of…
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