Showing posts with label Philadelphia Old City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philadelphia Old City. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Philadelphia Old City's Forgotten Dead | M.P. Pellicer
In February 2017, Philadelphia crews working on an apartment building in the city's historic district got a shock when their backhoes started hitting coffins and unearthing fully intact human remains. The site was supposed to be a former burial ground from 1707, and all remains were supposedly exhumed in the 1800s and moved to a different cemetery, which apparently they weren't.
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