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Written by DeadGirl
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Thursday, 17 March 2005 |
Family members of people buried on land now owned by Extra Space Storage say the dead should not be disturbed.
In August, contractors for a Utah-based storage company were in the middle of clearing a worksite at 1810 Plainfield Pike when they unearthed some bones and pieces of headstone.
The employees working an excavator immediately stopped and the graves, which could have been bulldozed in about two hours of work, were saved.
Since then, the project has been on ice and an array of questions have taken center stage.
Should the site be moved? Should it be preserved? Why did it go unnoticed that A&A DiFazio Greenhouses sat on about 6 feet of fill above the gravesite for several years before the storage company purchased the land?
Representatives from Extra Space Storage informed the Town Council at a public hearing last night that since August, the company has been working with the Public Archaeology Laboratory, of Pawtucket, on what move it should take next.
Allen Leveillee, of Public Archaeology, said that in his 27 years as an archaeologist the past treatment of the graveyard "was the worst case of a violation I have seen."
Leveillee recommended that the best move for Extra Space Storage would be to get a permit from the council that would allow it to figure out who is buried at the site and relocate the graves to Highland Memorial Park Cemetery.
"There is no prudent way to preserve this space," Leveillee said.
Records from 1891 show that there could be as many as 14 people buried at the site, and no one knew exactly where the site was as of 1987.
"For 20 years that cemetery was under a greenhouse and Extra Space is trying to do the right thing here," said James D. Masterman, a lawyer for Extra Space. "Had we known, I don't think we would have touched the site at all."
Some family members of people who are known to be buried there said the best thing would be for the graves to stay where they are.
Richard Kelley, one of the relatives, said he traveled 200 miles from New Hampshire to state his opinion.
"I'm opposed to moving the cemetery," he said.
The council decided to continue the public hearing until its meeting in April in order to allow more relatives to come forward and give their opinions.
"The right thing to do is what the families want," said Town Council Vice President William Santilli.
Providence Journal March 17, 2005
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