The Cemetery Before the Excavation: A Question of Respect
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Before excavation, the potter's field cemetery lay hidden under a thick growth of underbrush and modern landfill right next to and under the New Jersey Turnpike.
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In the 1980s, Hudson County built a temporary correctional/detention center in the area of the Secaucus Potter's Field.
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Using historic maps and heavy machinery, Berger's archaeologists were able to discover many graves buried beneath the detention center road.
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Bulldozing the top layer off the frozen ground in the potter's field vicinity found up to six feet of landfill masking the grave locations.
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