Posted on 11/21/2019 8:01:56 AM PST by BenLurkin
The Hillsborough County school district said Wednesday that geophysical technicians found “clear evidence” of burials at the Clarence Leon King High School campus.
School officials believe the caskets are part of Ridgewood Cemetery, a historic paupers’ burial ground from the early 1940s that was owned by the city, according to the Florida Genealogical Society. King High School opened in 1960, according to the school’s website.
Tanya Arja, a spokeswoman with the school district, said officials began investigating last month after a person told a school board member of the possible location of the cemetery.
For nearly two weeks, technicians hired by the district used ground penetrating radar to confirm the location of the caskets. The coffins are buried 3-5 feet deep in about an acre of open land, and near a small building used by school’s agricultural program, the district said.
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“Not hard to see how this could happen or existed and no one alive today would know anything about it.”
You might want to finish that statement with no one cared about it either as for almost 60 years nothing was mentioned and nothing obviously was marked. And it stated in the article that “a person” finally said something. One?
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It’s actually quite sad.
So many forgotten people. Americans, who were born, had mothers and fathers that loved them, lived lives... all gone.
Just very saddening, to me.
Ive seen this movie,,it doesnt end well.
If only one person brought this to the authorities attention, then it would not be hard to believe that if that one person hadn't come forward, then the coffins would still be buried under the schoolyard without anybody realizing it.
The story of life .... and death in this world.
Three generations are your gone nobody remembers you at all ...
Back in history AA graves were sometimes marked by pottery and even face jugs which are very valuable today. I’m surprised they were completely unmarked.
You know they won’t bury anyone there who lives within 5 miles of that cemetery.
?
Because they are still living!!
Here in Northern California, every 6 foot or deeper new excavation requires the presence of a Native American representative on site to be certain that any bones or bone fragments found are not disturbed. Law on the books for twenty years or so. Local golf course rerouting drainage presently waiting for bone fragment analysis at a lab.
Yes, true that...
Just a shame that even a graveyard can’t be held in some measure of ... sacredness. I don’t know the right word for it.
Similar here in Wisconsin. We have a cell phone tower on our farm, and one of the first questions the tower company asked was whether or not we had ever found an arrowhead on the entire place. If so, no need to talk any more. Acquiring required permits, etc., was just astonishing.
Same in WV, the flooding that occurred there 3 or 4 years or so ago, repair & rebuilding has slowed to a crawl and still isn’t close to being done because of that. Archeological surveys have to be done first before any new building/reconstruction occurs
I have a family cemetery on my own 30 acre cattle farm. It's an acre and because it's designated as a cemetery, there are no property taxes on it.
There are about 25 people (or their ashes) buried there and I only know four names. My wife knows 3/4's of them but not all of them.
Unless the people buried are of some infamy or their family and/or friends remember them, it is not hard to see how people are forgotten over time.
Both my parents died a couple of decades ago. After my wife and I are gone, we only have one daughter who ever knew them when she was young. There is not gravesite for either of them. They were both cremated and their ashes spread to the winds.
So it won't take but two generations for my folks to cease being a memory in my family.
I wonder if they are reports of ghosts and paranormal happenings at this school? Calling Mr. Zack Bagans!
There will be plenty of them after this story gets more play!
In my little town the Methodist had a cemetery where about 300 graves were located. The Methodist church had allowed to grow up and a local contractor approached them about buying and developing the property and they sold it to him. My Dad had grown up as a kid in the 1950’s in this area and him and his brothers and friends had camped out on the edge of the cemetery even during the summers.
He told the local government you have approximately 300 graves in this area you are about to let someone build houses on. They could have cared less. No bodies were moved, tombstones were knocked down, buried or outright removed. There are now several houses built over this old cemetery and none of them know what lies below their homes except for me and a few others. The Methodist church nd the local governments behavior was an abomination, more so for the church, all they saw was $$$.
They must have been Confederates since all memory of them has been erased.
Ya, similar situation here. The paupers graveyard(30s/40s) had been forgotten and left to nature. At least in our case when it became inconvenient to have it where it was a charity was formed and they dug the whole thing up and moved what they could find to another spot with everything marked and documented as well as they could. Hard to believe they were all forgotten after so few years.
LOL. Great special effects. You can pretty much sense the strings on that walking skeleton.
Yeah.. it’s a sad fact of our existence.
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