> > This is something which I think warrants our expressing our opinion -- > quickly. I have featured an alert to the article on the homepage of The > Poorhouse Story website http://www.poorhousestory.com > > Please read and forward where you think appropriate. > > Thanks, > Linda > (aka = The Poorhouse Lady) > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 5:27 PM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: [NYSARATO] Times Union Article > > > > > > > > Forgotten in life, interrupted in death > > > > Albany -- University Heights project rising atop almshouse's > > burial field > > may force relocation of remains > > > > by: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Staff writer > > > > Such is the lot of the poor, the unwanted, the unidentified and the > > forgotten of 19th-century Albany -- laid to rest in more than > a thousand > > unmarked graves now paved over by a parking lot. > > They were the city's most marginal inhabitants, whose deaths were > > allotted > > one line apiece in a ledger kept at the Albany County Hall of > Records. ' > > Unknown man, found drowned in the river,'' one entry reads. > > 'Died suddenly > > in > > jail,'' says another. Many state simply, 'Stillborn.'' > > > > Since early March, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of four > > people > > behind the New Scotland Avenue Armory while doing site work for the > > University Heights project -- a campus for a consortium of > local colleges > > that could eventually include a megabookstore and food court in the old > > armory as well as a hotel and conference center. > > > > To read the rest of the article, go to: > > > > http://timesunion.com/ss.asp?s=31983&c=F > > > > To visit the site's homepage, go to http://timesunion.com > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > >