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Paperback New York City's Hart Island: A Cemetery of Strangers Book

ISBN: 1467144045

ISBN13: 9781467144049

New York City's Hart Island: A Cemetery of Strangers

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Just off the coast of the Bronx in Long Island Sound sits Hart Island, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves.


Beginning as a Civil War prison and training site and later a psychiatric hospital, the location became the repository for New York City's unclaimed dead. The island's mass graves are a microcosm of New York history, from the 1822 burial crisis to casualties of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and...

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