Déplacer un cimetière pour un stade de football: une histoire complexe en Virginie

Le projet de stade d'un high school de la Virginie tourne à controverse après la découverte d'un cimetière pendant les travaux. Même si le projet va de l'avant, les archéologues et les historiens sont appelés en renfort.

 "Then, last month, a school official revealed that evidence of the cemetery had actually been found in 2008 by contractors surveying the site, who, for unknown reasons, didn’t tell the school system until July.

 The site, on a remote ridge south of Manassas, was overgrown with dense woods. No one had been buried there in more than a century. And the graves, which dated from the 1860s to the 1890s, were marked only by rough fieldstones with no inscriptions.

 It was not even clear how many graves there were, maybe a dozen or so.

 But as the work on the site got underway Nov. 11, researchers poring over old deed books and microfilm quickly traced the land to a 100-acre farm occupied by a man named William Lynn, his wife, Cordelia, and their children in the mid-1800s.

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