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The University of Mississippi's School of Medicine was forced to delay construction of a parking garage after tests revealed the presence of as many as 1,000 bodies buried at the Jackson, Miss., site.
They were not identified, according to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, and are thought to have been former patients at the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, which closed about 80 years ago.
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Whoops!
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Very common for asylum and state hospitals of that period to have Potter's Fields. At least they're nice enough to NOT* build over it.
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Oh god damn.
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Par for the course, they found almost 10,000 bodies to build Secaucus Junction in NJ.
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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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"Will you compromise and then realize the price is too much to pay?" "Winners and losers... which one will you be today?"
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This is like the 4th of 5th time the U of Mississippi has found "unexpected" bodies, you'd think they'd have learned by now.... Universities are pretty dumb though, the U of Minnesota was all excited to get cheap industrial wasteland to build their stadium, then they realized it was polluted as hell 
2011: http://www.umc.edu...quity_at_UMMC.aspx
Last spring: http://www.umc.edu...ked_to_asylum.aspx
Good work showing respect lol: “A lot of clay and junk was in the soil,” said Ron Horne, director of construction projects at UMMC, “and has to be replaced with something more solid.” “We might have built the roadbed on top of them if the subsoil had been solid,”
There's also a confederate cemetary on the site, apparently at some point the groundskeepers moved the headstones and then couldn't remember where they went
http://graveyardra...university-of.html
Supposedly in the 1990s some headstones were removed and dumped in a ravine behind the U.
Also when searching this I found a bunch of people associated with the U of Miss named "Robin Graves". Who names their kid that???
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
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so, you mean if you just bury them and don't tell anyone, it doesn't really go away? d'oh!
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Apparently not if the ground isn't solid enough to pave over them
Back in high school we always heard about Tuberculosis victims from the 1950s dumped in abandoned WWII bunkers.... turned out it was true. The government finally paid for real burials when they needed to tear down the bunkers
http://juneauempir...00/Loc_victim.html
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
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There's archaeological evidence of pest houses in a park in my town. No ruins left, no above-ground evidence, but I can't imagine the smallpox victims left to die there were handled a lot after they passed. Makes me wonder what's in the ground up there.
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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.
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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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They were not identified, according to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, and are thought to have been former patients at the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, which closed about 80 years ago.
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Closer to 90 years by my math.
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Posted by Doug
Closer to 90 years by my math.
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Posted by Wowee
It appears the grave of this thread has been doug up.
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I see what you did there.
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