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Ancient Burying Ground

Hartford, CT

Hartford's oldest surviving cemetery holds generations of the city's earliest residents in an increasingly compressed downtown landscape. Thousands were buried here, sometimes in layered graves, while later city development transformed the land around the burial ground.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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