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I would have to say in terms of "memorable" would be the two people's
remains in the way of the water fountain placed in City Hall Park recently
on the island of Manhattan in New York in 1999. They appeared almost
conjoined, and like the others multiple burials, in the City Hall Park, bore
no artifacts to identify them. Others in the vicinity it is said were part
of the "Almshouse" burials that the written record records for the area,
though other things went on in the "City Commons Historic District and
African Burial Ground National Historic Landmark District," including an
adjacent prison run by Major Cunningham, said by the New York Times in 1903
to have been "...blacker than any black hole of Calcutta" and site of the
torture of Ethan Allen during the American Revolution, according to the
paper. The fountain was moved away from the adult "twins" once they were
revealed.
It would be a toss-up however, with the Moore-Jackson cemetery, where there
are stones but no bones. The descendant's house had been used to plot the
strategy by the British Army which beat General Washington in the "Battle of
Long Island" in Queens, NY. Apparently stones were placed during the Works
Project Administration program without knowing where the bodies were, that
is replacing stones that had apparently been moved and lost their location
(some moved and replaced for farming, at one park along a Hudson River
terrace, until the "keeper" was too old and let go, ended up in the Town
Highway Department).
George Myers
Have a Fort Greene Happy Halloween
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