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George Myers <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:47:29 -0700
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In another archaeology tech job for the Queens Historical Association (NYC - 
Celia Bergoffen, PhD, RPA, Stanley Cogan, Borough Historian)  we hand test 
excavated the landmarked Moore-Jackson Cemetery to determine what 
reconstruction had taken place in the historic cemetery, part of a block-to-
block property acquired by the Queens Historical Association. Erroneously 
reported an extant cemetery, all the stones are in landscaped positions 
documented now from the WPA era. Additional remote-sensing or further 
excavation will be needed to “find” it outside the garden. Family residence 
associated with it was where the British Army headquartered and won the 
“Battle of Long Island” the first defeat of General Washington in the American 
Revolution. After, at trial, the owners, were found innocent of collaboration 
with the British Army, the house on a strategic crossroad of "information". It 
looks like a cemetery, once next to the Japanese-American garden supplier, 
but was arranged, i.e., all the stones had broken bottoms, where often they 
extend as much as 3 feet or more into the ground. Drive-by cemetery crashing 
in the early 1930s? If someone would be interested in trying a remote-sensing 
test there please contact them.

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