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Civil War Grave in a Parking Lot

Burkesville, KY

Civil War veteran Captain Jack McClain's grave sits by itself on a small island in the parking lot of the Alpine resort. The burial predates the motel property and was preserved when the hilltop was developed, leaving a solitary nineteenth-century grave surrounded by asphalt and parked cars.

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

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Source: Roadside America

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