Archaeologists Examine a Coffin Recovered During Excavations at St. Peter Street Cemetery

ID: 5765 ~ Source: Collections of UNO Archaeology Lab
This file appears in: St. Peter Street Cemetery
Archaeologists Examine a Coffin Recovered During Excavations at St. Peter Street Cemetery
This file appears in: St. Peter Street Cemetery

By D. Ryan Gray
The St. Peter Street Cemetery was one of the city’s first formal burial grounds, eventually occupying the entirety of the city block bounded by N. Rampart, St. Peter, Burgundy, and Toulouse Streets. It is shown on maps by the mid-1720s, and, even…