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Written by DeadGirl
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Sunday, 16 January 2005 |
Marker to be placed in area to honor city’s first residents.
By EMMA PEREZ-TREVIÑO
The Brownsville Herald
Jan 12, 2005 — The dead on East Monroe Street can now rest in peace after Cameron County officials on Tuesday abandoned plans to house mechanical and electrical equipment at the city’s first cemetery.
The area will instead receive a marker to commemorate the gravesite, which holds hundreds of graves that date back to at least 1848.
“We’re not moving the graves. We don’t want to,†Pct. 4 Commissioner Edna Tamayo said. “That is the proper thing to do.â€
Commissioners Court on Tuesday approved, without comment, a $13,888 change order to relocate chiller and electrical equipment to the historic 1912 Dancy Building site at East Monroe and 11th streets — across the street from the cemetery.
“The bones will be reinterred in that location and some sort of marker will be placed over the area to pay respects to Brownsville’s first residents,†Remi Garza, spokesman for Cameron County Judge Gilberto Hinojosa, said after the meeting.
Crews working on the renovation of the Dancy Building in late September uncovered the cemetery as they were digging a trench to house the utility lines.
Archaeologist John Keller of Southern Archaeological Consultants Inc. in Los Fresnos determined in November that up to 700 graves could be there.
If the county were to continue the utility project at the site, it would cost more than $300,000 to conduct a complete archaeological survey and significantly more if exhumation is required, Pct. 3 Commissioner David Garza told The Brownsville Herald in November.
Eugene Fernandez, executive director of Friends of the Brownsville Historic City Cemetery, was relieved to hear the cemetery would no longer be disturbed.
“We are a nation here that respects our dead,†Fernandez said.
Besides the cost of exhuming the bodies, another “consideration (for leaving the site) was the civility of it,†Fernandez said. “You are dealing with a burial ground. That must be taken into consideration and treated with respect.â€
The cemetery covers block 144 that is bounded by Monroe Street on the south, 11th on the east, 12th on the west and Jackson on the north.
Local historians believe that burials continued at the site after it was abandoned in 1850 for a new one at Fifth and Madison streets. The graves were supposed to have been moved to the new cemetery.
When the gravesite was uncovered, utility work halted at the direction of the Texas Historical Commission, which is funding the Dancy Building restoration.
Keller was contracted in October at a fee not to exceed more than $50,000. His written report on his findings is expected any day, Remi Garza said.
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