From the Metro staff at The Boston Globe
A mystery in Woburn: headstone found at construction site
March 31, 2008 09:31 PM
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By Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff
A construction crew excavating a Woburn lot today unearthed a buried headstone from the 1860s, said Thomas Quinn, the city's deputy superintendent of public works.
The stone was buried several feet below a private lot on Harrison Avenue, and the crew -- which discovered the marker while digging out an existing foundation -- immediately stopped work and contacted the DPW, said Quinn, who visited the scene with other officials.
They found no visible remains but sent samples of the earth, debris, and locomotive ash deposited by passing railroads alongside the property to the state medical examiner's office in Boston for analysis, Quinn said.
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