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"Nancy S. Dickinson" <[log in to unmask]>
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On Aug 4, 2013, at 11:44 AM, George Myers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I know of many examples where cemeterires were not removed but disturbed, then kept, one a formerlly unknown, circa American Revolution, which has one monument placed on it Governors Island, NY. 
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> Two cemeteries removed from the Bowery, NYC, where two 19th century marble vault cemeteries still exist, were removed but as far as we could determine no monument to the former Quaker and Methodist cemeteries exist, but may today. 
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> Another, the Watervliet Shaker cemetery in Kettering, Ohio, had a monument placed by surveyor description, found to be wrong, a GPR survey and extensive excavation trenches, 2.1 miles in 10 days with three backhoes, to "make sure" and the Dayton Power and Light, Inc. research facility moved as well as the monument on the over 900 acres. 
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> Another Dutch Reformed was found to be larger than first thought 1/4 acre to 1/2 acre and was documented by topsoil stripping in a part of Bowdoin Park, a Dutchess County, NY park along the Hudson River, ceded in part that became a sewerage treatment plant.
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> George Myers

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