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Tue, 9 Nov 1999 21:47:13 -0500
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I didn't locate anything nor did the foundation and committee being formed to
save and preserve the cemetery. An archaeological survey crew from Midwest
Environmental Consultants, Inc. was hired by the property-owner or developer
of the proposed housing complex to survey a narrow right-of-way for a sewer
line to go in for this development. Prior to this two local ladies had been
surface collecting the field picking up fragments of human bone that they had
been giving the Monroe County Historical Museum. The survey crew hit a
feature within the sewer right-of-way that produced human bone and expanded
outwards to uncover it when they started to hit additional stains of coffin
burials. One might have expected there would be something in this vacant
field between two housing complexexes when not more than 30 meters away near
the road edge there is a historical marker erected in the late 1950s stating
that this area was the location of St. Antoine's Cemetery (ca. 1788-1850).

Pat Tucker

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