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Radical_Ed
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| | | Re: Asylum's Mass Grave Discovered < Reply # 6 on 2/12/2014 11:09 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Almost correct, my good man! When Secaucus Junction was built, there was already a well-known "Potter's Field" there called the Snake Hill Cemetery. Since it was filled with remains from the local insane asylum and the poor house, it was no problem to reinter them at another cemetery, which happened to be in Hoboken. When the reinterment graves were dug, THAT'S when they found the "virgin" land in the Hoboken Cemetery to be already in use. It seems the Hoboken Cemetery had been "recycling" graves because they were full. Eventually, they had to move over 4,500 remains to Hackensack, where hopefully they all will reside for the rest of eternity.
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| | | | Re: Asylum's Mass Grave Discovered < Reply # 11 on 2/13/2014 5:15 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Radical_Ed Almost correct, my good man! When Secaucus Junction was built, there was already a well-known "Potter's Field" there called the Snake Hill Cemetery. Since it was filled with remains from the local insane asylum and the poor house, it was no problem to reinter them at another cemetery, which happened to be in Hoboken. When the re interment graves were dug, THAT'S when they found the "virgin" land in the Hoboken Cemetery to be already in use. It seems the Hoboken Cemetery had been "recycling" graves because they were full. Eventually, they had to move over 4,500 remains to Hackensack, where hopefully they all will reside for the rest of eternity.
| Also almost correct. The cemetery was not well known. There were three cemeteries used by the institutions on Snake Hill and the county but where they were and who was buried there was essentially lost to time. The institutions which stood in the hill included the county almshouse, infirmary, prison, mental hospital, and a few others, but they had all closed their doors between 1950 and the 1960s.The one they had to move for Secaucus Junction was used as the county Potter's field and almshouse and had been unused since 1962. The Hill was quarried away into the small bit it is today throughout the 1960s and by the early 1970s the headstones had all been removed because the bodies were supposedly moved then. When building Secacus Junction they didn't realize they were digging into a cemetery until workers hit pine coffins and halted work. I was wrong about them moving 10,000 through, records show the Snake Hill institutions and the county buried 9,781 people there combined, but the cemetery they moved ended up totaling 4,571, so about 5,00 people are still laying in the Medowlands or have broken down enough to become the Medowlands around there. That is funny that the Hoboken Cemetery ended up having unknown graves in their virgin land too. That is something I did not know. ALSO: Apparently my girlfriends company is the engineering firm who designed the parking garage they are building. Small world.
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