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It started with a few bones unearthed at an Old City construction site.
....Moran and her team have three theories as to why so many bodies were left behind: the oversight was accidental; descendants may not have paid for some bodies to be moved; or an epidemic may have led to a mass grave that later workers didn’t feel comfortable touching.
So how many people are there? What happened to them? Who, exactly, was buried for so long without anyone knowing they were there?
Hundreds of bones were pulled out of an Old City construction site. Now what?
1793 Yellow Fever.
Open Collections Program: Contagion, The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793
I want that job! I just want to be paid for it.
....Moran and her team have three theories as to why so many bodies were left behind: the oversight was accidental; descendants may not have paid for some bodies to be moved; or an epidemic may have led to a mass grave that later workers didn’t feel comfortable touching.
So how many people are there? What happened to them? Who, exactly, was buried for so long without anyone knowing they were there?
Hundreds of bones were pulled out of an Old City construction site. Now what?
1793 Yellow Fever.
Open Collections Program: Contagion, The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793
I want that job! I just want to be paid for it.