Petition updatePreserve Our VillageWHAT WAS FOUND IN NEW CANAAN HISTORIC MAPEL STREET CEMETERY
Jack TriferoNew Canaan CT, CT, United States
Feb 19, 2017
When you read the list below you will ask....So why are we debating whether human remains were found in other plots? Acting Chairman Papp said any 'fragments of human remains' meant stop, Parcel P should be left alone............which is one of the Conditions being appealed by M2......(Papp at 3:44:12 video, NCTV website 11-29-16). Let's support the Commission and their Approval with Conditions protecting the cemetery....P&Z Hearing scheduled for 2-28-17, public comments welcome.. Defeat the proposed amendments! Tell a P&Z Commission members you know, to support their approval and vote no on the 'cemetery amendments' . Go to P&Z website to read report ! Go to the 11-29-16 Video on NCTV 79 to confirm the facts. Start of Cemetery deliberations at 3:41:00 to 3:53:18. On the NCTV website. WHAT WAS FOUND List of Graves, Coffins and Human Remains found in Parcel P plots Of the Old Maple Street Burial Ground (Nov. and January digs) Hoyt - Keeler Plot (M2 identified Parcel 'F') Eleven grave shafts, 'archaeological features, coffin hardware, remnants of human remains left in situ (not specifically identified in report) Feature #4, a coffin lid with lettering 'A E." and a second wood section inscribed 'S 45' in brass tacks. A second coffin lid, badly degraded, with human remains, tooth, partial distal radius and ulna, fragments of phalanges, partial left & right tibiae, fragment left pelvis. Feature #7 coffin,wood,corroded nails Feature #8 coffin, wood fragments, nails,glass & coffin tacks. Feature #9 coffin, fragments of wood, nails,brass tacks,hinges and marble. Very small hexagonal coffin stain outline-likely disinterred infant burial Feature #10 coffin stain, fragmentary wood and corroded nails Feature #11 coffin, fragments of wood, corroded nails and a tack Feature #12 coffin, coffin stain, fragments of wood, nails and tacks Feature #13 coffin, fragments of wood,corroded nails,and brass tacks Feature#14 Coffin, fragments of wood,nails,tacks and a butt hinge. Feature #15 - coffin remains,corroded nails,hinges,coffin screws, pieces of viewing glass Feature #16 coffin, not fully excavated-extended into adjacent property, coffin nails and hinge Hannah Benedict St. John Plot (M2 Parcel 'H') & Carriage Park Driftway (M2 Parcel 'G') Feature #5 coffin, fragments wood, corroded nails and butt hinge Feature #6 coffin, fragmentary wood,nails,viewing glass, tortoise-shell comb, human remains degraded possible tarsal & metatarsal. left in situ (see map,most of this plot blacktopped, Features #5 & #6 extend a bit into the carriage park driftway which has been entirely blacktopped.) David Law Plot (M2 Parcel 'I' ) Three full burials were found within this plot. All human remains left in situ.
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