Showing posts with label Hart Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hart Island. Show all posts

Saturday, April 19, 2014

There Are One Million Buried In Mass Graves On A Forbidden New York Island.


Heart Island

Most New Yorkers don't even know it exists. But a million forgotten souls are buried in mass graves dug by convicts on a tiny, forbidden island east of the Bronx.
Since 1869, still-born babies, the homeless, the poor and the unclaimed have been stacked one upon the other, three coffins deep, on Hart Island.


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