More than one million dead are buried on this island which now serves as a public mass grave.
They currently have a website (creepy for a cemetery if you ask me) which features ticking clocks for each body. If you write a story for a dead person, the clock stops ticking.
https://www.hartisland.net/
>>17746771
>More than one million dead are buried on this island
Follow the link OP provides. First sentence says: "65,801 people have been buried in mass graves on Hart Island."
About 934,000 corpses off there OP.
>>17746789
He's just using Jewish bodycounting techniques.
>>17746789
they only started coutning fairly recently. the place has been 'in business' since the american civil war so there's gotta be tons more buried. plus tons of babies
>>17746789
>>17746789
lrn2read
> Since 1980, 60k have been buried
its been active way before 1980
>>17746813
1337 h4x0r
anyway
on the site if you click a body, some give a detailed description and/or a picture and its just really fucking morbid
>>17746771
isn't that a potter's field or something.
I think I may have heard of it.
>>17746789
That's the unidentified body count. The identified but unclaimed count brings it to over a million. The Hart Island Project is not about those people whose names are recorded.
I think this is really sad . I'm fairly positive that harts island is for the unknown head but some of the peoples stories have family leaving a picture and whatnot...I mean how does that qualify s unknown? How do you not claim a loved one?
>>17746835
If you cared for someone interred there but can't afford to have them exhumed and transferred, you do what you can.
>>17746841
I suppose this could be correct.
>>17746795
I'll be honest; I smiled a little bit.
