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Highland Cemetery

peteb — 2010-07-16T01:48:48Z

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- [[Image(memorialplaque05.jpg, "Memorial plaque as it exists today.", 254, left, thumbnail)]] - The source of the bodies is believed to be from the Almshouse originally located on nearby grounds. No formal records of the burials exist, let alone a name for the cemetery, and the burial period arrived at by ["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC] simply seems to have been pulled from a slim record of deaths at the Almshouse beginning and ending the years the state required its existence. It is also worth noting those records only cover 251 deaths, not accounting for the 305 confirmed graves, and what many more may lie beneath the unexcavated portions.	+ [[Image(memorialplaque05.jpg, "Memorial plaque as it exists today.", 254, left, noborder,thumbnail)]] + The source of the bodies is believed to be from the Almshouse originally located on nearby grounds. No formal records of the burials exist, let alone a name for the ["Cemeteries" cemetery], and the burial period arrived at by ["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC] simply seems to have been pulled from a slim record of deaths at the Almshouse beginning and ending the years the state required its existence. It is also worth noting those records only cover 251 deaths, not accounting for the 305 confirmed graves, and what many more may lie beneath the unexcavated portions.

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RobertPolyn — 2005-09-02T00:33:59Z

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	+ + Also see: ["Oddities"]

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RobertPolyn — 2005-09-02T00:32:33Z

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RobertPolyn — 2005-09-02T00:20:41Z

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RobertPolyn — 2005-07-29T02:04:26Z

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- It has been estimated that somewhere in the range of 600 - 700 burials remain.	+ It has been estimated that somewhere in the range of 600 - 700 bodies remain.

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RobertPolyn — 2005-07-29T01:56:01Z

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- * [http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050726/NEWS01/507260304/1002/NEWS It has taken over twenty years to rebury some of the bodies originally taken for examination]	+ * [http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050726/NEWS01/507260304/1002/NEWS Article on the reburial of bodies, twenty years after originally being taken for examination]

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RobertPolyn — 2005-07-29T01:54:28Z

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	+ It has been estimated that somewhere in the range of 600 - 700 burials remain. +

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RobertPolyn — 2005-07-29T01:50:42Z

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- * [http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=3639996 It has taken over twenty years to rebury some of the bodies originally taken for examination]	+ * [http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050726/NEWS01/507260304/1002/NEWS It has taken over twenty years to rebury some of the bodies originally taken for examination]

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RobertPolyn — 2005-07-29T01:49:15Z

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	+ * [http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=3639996 It has taken over twenty years to rebury some of the bodies originally taken for examination]

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RobertPolyn — 2005-06-28T02:52:09Z

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	+ * [http://www.vintageviews.org/vv-tl/maps/pages/1900.html Map showing former buildings on this property, and the outline of the cemetery and its excavation toward the bottom right]

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RobertPolyn — 2005-06-02T20:12:50Z

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- The source of the bodies is believed to be from the Almhouse originally located on nearby grounds. No formal records of the burials exist, let alone a name for the cemetery, and the burial period arrived at by ["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC] simply seems to have been pulled from a slim record of deaths at the Almshouse beginning and ending the years the state required its existence. It is also worth noting those records only cover 251 deaths, not accounting for the 305 confirmed graves, and what many more may lie beneath the unexcavated portions.	+ The source of the bodies is believed to be from the Almshouse originally located on nearby grounds. No formal records of the burials exist, let alone a name for the cemetery, and the burial period arrived at by ["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC] simply seems to have been pulled from a slim record of deaths at the Almshouse beginning and ending the years the state required its existence. It is also worth noting those records only cover 251 deaths, not accounting for the 305 confirmed graves, and what many more may lie beneath the unexcavated portions.

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RobertPolyn — 2005-06-02T06:01:08Z

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- The source of the bodies is believed to be from the Almhouse originally located on nearby grounds. No formal records of the burials exist, let alone a name for the cemetery, and the burial period arrived at by ["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC] simply seems to have been pulled from a slim record of deaths at the Almshouse beginning and ending the years the state required their existence. It is also worth noting those records only cover 251 deaths, not accounting for the 305 confirmed graves, and what many more may lie beneath the unexcavated portions.	+ The source of the bodies is believed to be from the Almhouse originally located on nearby grounds. No formal records of the burials exist, let alone a name for the cemetery, and the burial period arrived at by ["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC] simply seems to have been pulled from a slim record of deaths at the Almshouse beginning and ending the years the state required its existence. It is also worth noting those records only cover 251 deaths, not accounting for the 305 confirmed graves, and what many more may lie beneath the unexcavated portions.

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RobertPolyn — 2005-06-02T05:42:41Z

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- From the late 1800s through to July of 1984 this location has had a history of turning up its past. Prior to 1984 the tacit method of dealing with the bodies found at this location was to return them to the earth[[FootNote(The laying of a pipeline in the 1980s and plowing of a field by prisoners in the 1930s are two noteworthy instances.)]], caskets and bones: shattered, mixed, and indistinguishable beneath the lilacs. When a bulldozer disinterred six skeletons while landscaping ["Highland Park"] in 1984, and then later six more were uncovered by rainstorms, an excavation was called for and led by ["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC].	+ From the late 1800s through to July of 1984 this location has had a history of turning up its past. Prior to 1984 the tacit method of dealing with the bodies found here was to return them to the earth[[FootNote(The laying of a pipeline in the 1980s and plowing of a field by prisoners in the 1930s are two noteworthy instances.)]], caskets and bones: shattered, mixed, and indistinguishable beneath the lilacs. When a bulldozer disinterred six skeletons while landscaping ["Highland Park"] in 1984, and then later six more were uncovered by rainstorms, an excavation was called for and led by ["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC].

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RobertPolyn — 2005-06-02T05:40:50Z

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- From the late 1800s through to July of 1984 this land has had a history of turning up its past. Prior to 1984 the tacit method of dealing with the bodies found at this location was to return them to the earth[[FootNote(The laying of a pipeline in the 1980s and plowing of a field by prisoners in the 1930s are two noteworthy instances.)]], caskets and bones: shattered, mixed, and indistinguishable beneath the lilacs. When a bulldozer disinterred six skeletons while landscaping ["Highland Park"] in 1984, and then later six more were uncovered by rainstorms, an excavation was called for and led by ["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC].	+ From the late 1800s through to July of 1984 this location has had a history of turning up its past. Prior to 1984 the tacit method of dealing with the bodies found at this location was to return them to the earth[[FootNote(The laying of a pipeline in the 1980s and plowing of a field by prisoners in the 1930s are two noteworthy instances.)]], caskets and bones: shattered, mixed, and indistinguishable beneath the lilacs. When a bulldozer disinterred six skeletons while landscaping ["Highland Park"] in 1984, and then later six more were uncovered by rainstorms, an excavation was called for and led by ["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC].

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RobertPolyn — 2005-06-02T05:39:07Z

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- Every spring Rochesterians gather for the ["Lilac Festival"] in ["Highland Park"], blissfully unaware of the history contained in the grounds they tread. That there had once been a Penitentiary centered on that land is news to most, as is the Almshouse and Insane Asylum that followed it down ["South Avenue" South Avenue] from ["Highland Avenue" Highland Ave]. However, what was once on this land is hardly worth mention in comparison to what remains ''in'' this land.	+ Every spring Rochesterians gather for the ["Lilac Festival"] in ["Highland Park"], blissfully unaware of the history contained in the grounds they tread. That there had once been a Penitentiary centered on that land is news to most, as is the Almshouse and Insane Asylum that followed it down ["South Avenue" South Avenue] from ["Highland Avenue" Highland Ave]. However, what was once on this land is hardly worth mention in comparison to what remains in this land.

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RobertPolyn — 2005-06-02T05:33:45Z

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	+ [[Thumbnail(highlandcemetery.JPG, 254, right, "["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC] investigators excavate grave site. Image credit: cropped copy of photo by Michael Schwarz from the Times-Union")]] + Every spring Rochesterians gather for the ["Lilac Festival"] in ["Highland Park"], blissfully unaware of the history contained in the grounds they tread. That there had once been a Penitentiary centered on that land is news to most, as is the Almshouse and Insane Asylum that followed it down ["South Avenue" South Avenue] from ["Highland Avenue" Highland Ave]. However, what was once on this land is hardly worth mention in comparison to what remains ''in'' this land. + + From the late 1800s through to July of 1984 this land has had a history of turning up its past. Prior to 1984 the tacit method of dealing with the bodies found at this location was to return them to the earth[[FootNote(The laying of a pipeline in the 1980s and plowing of a field by prisoners in the 1930s are two noteworthy instances.)]], caskets and bones: shattered, mixed, and indistinguishable beneath the lilacs. When a bulldozer disinterred six skeletons while landscaping ["Highland Park"] in 1984, and then later six more were uncovered by rainstorms, an excavation was called for and led by ["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC]. + + After just 22 days 305 graves were excavated. 296 were removed for relocation to ["Mt. Hope Cemetery"], the remaining documented 19 were deemed to be buried deep enough so as not to be disturbed by the ongoing landscaping. However, the excavation performed by ["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC] was far from complete. Test holes and analysis of the soil have shown the cemetery encompassing a far greater perimeter than taken into account by the scope of the excavation. Tread lightly. + + The source of the bodies is believed to be from the Almhouse originally located on nearby grounds. No formal records of the burials exist, let alone a name for the cemetery, and the burial period arrived at by ["Rochester Museum & Science Center" RMSC] simply seems to have been pulled from a slim record of deaths at the Almshouse beginning and ending the years the state required their existence. It is also worth noting those records only cover 251 deaths, not accounting for the 305 confirmed graves, and what many more may lie beneath the unexcavated portions. + + * [http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/~rochhist/v45_1983/v45i1-2.pdf Rochester History Vol. XLV: Life and Death in Nineteenth Century Rochester]

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RobertPolyn — 2005-06-02T05:12:38Z

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