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| Prison Construction Site Unearths Coffins |
| By post-gazette.com |
| Published: 09/14/2010 |
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Construction has resumed on new prisoner housing units in Somerset County where contractors this summer unearthed nearly two dozen coffins in a long-forgotten cemetery. More than 150 years ago, the site had been used for a county poorhouse/workhouse before the campus was converted to a state mental hospital. Many of the residents who died over the years at the facility had no relatives to claim their bodies, said Betsy Nightingale, spokeswoman for SCI Laurel Highlands. From the property's inception a century-and-a-half ago, and long before construction began on a second new housing unit at the state prison, about 90 people had been buried on the site, county records show. Read More. |
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