More than a million people are buried in mass graves that were dug by convicts over the decades on a tiny island east of 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. Corpses are interned in great, anonymous trenches. There are no tombstones. Small white posts in the ground mark each 150 adult bodies. A thousand children and infants are buried together ...Tuesday 8 April 2014
Tiny New York Island Host to More Than a Million Buried in Mass Graves
More than a million people are buried in mass graves that were dug by convicts over the decades on a tiny island east of 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. Corpses are interned in great, anonymous trenches. There are no tombstones. Small white posts in the ground mark each 150 adult bodies. A thousand children and infants are buried together ...
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