A northern Virginia school district has been criticized for following through with plans to turn an unruly swath of land identified as a gravesite into a high school football field.
"It's not even the high school," Carolyn Lynn, a genealogist from Manassas, Va., told The Washington Post. "And that kind of adds insult to injury."
At the beginning of the school year, Prince William County high schools announced it would move the cemetery, which they just learned about over the summer, the report said. The report said contractors at the location found evidence of the cemetery in 2008, but for "unknown reasons" did not alert anyone in the school system for years. Some of the graves date back to the 1860s.
Talk about your bad karma
"It's not even the high school," Carolyn Lynn, a genealogist from Manassas, Va., told The Washington Post. "And that kind of adds insult to injury."
At the beginning of the school year, Prince William County high schools announced it would move the cemetery, which they just learned about over the summer, the report said. The report said contractors at the location found evidence of the cemetery in 2008, but for "unknown reasons" did not alert anyone in the school system for years. Some of the graves date back to the 1860s.
Talk about your bad karma
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