S.P. Sullivan has a fascinating article on Snake Hill in Secaucus and how it may not be done giving up it's secrets after a massive cemetery reinterment from 2002:
That was 2002. The Turnpike Authority was looking to build a new interchange in Secaucus — Exit 15X — to give motorists access to the Secaucus Junction train station. As the site was prepared for the work, human remains were discovered. What followed would end up being the largest disinterment of bodies in U.S. history. Thousands of remains were extracted from the Meadowlands during a 10-month period in 2003. All told, more than 4,000 people were reburied in Hackensack and memorialized at a ceremony in late October 2004.
A decade later, a question lingers: Are there more bodies, forgotten and without families, buried just beyond the New Jersey Turnpike’s shoulder?
Make time for this article. It's so well written and simply fascinating. The fact it's late October and some of this story is about bodies and cemeteries makes it all the more topical.
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