Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2

This tour documents two excavations of Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2, a pauper's cemetery that was subsumed by Canal Boulevard in the 1930s.

Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2 (Introduction)

Nearly 50,000 burials lie beneath Canal Boulevard, originally Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2. Nearly forgotten since Canal Boulevard's addition to the city's roadways in 1937, road crews rediscovered the cemetery when they added a south-bound lane…

Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2: Excavations from 1980s

The Charity Hospital’s Cemetery No 2. * was used actively between the 1850s and the 1920s to bury the poor and those who succumbed to illness and disease at the hospital. Included in these burials were enslaved people, immigrants, victims of a yellow…