THE WIRE

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Black Moon Manor, Greenfield IN filed UNVETTED. The smallpox-hospital story sold to visitors (200 dead in the yard) was checked by the Hancock County historians: 84 infections, five deaths, no ledger. One thing held Rachel Eastes, aged five, buried 1842. The house came down in 2013. A lesson, kept. #Indiana