The following excerpt is from the October 21, 2014 edition of philly.com
One of the nation’s first quarantine stations had been transformed into a playground for the wealthy, and the dead buried on the property were no longer welcome.
Nobody wanted to play baseball on top of the departed. So, in 1900, the bodies were dug up and moved out.
Until last year, the final resting place of the immigrants who sailed to the United States in the 1800s but died at the Lazaretto in Tinicum Township, Delaware County [Pennsylvania], was the subject of informed speculation. No one was certain until Megan Harris’ work.
“When I actually found something, I thought I was going to cry,” said Harris, archivist at Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill.
I had read about this. This is a great effort. My home town…