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Historic Cemeteries Could See Grave Impacts of Climate Change in the Ocean State

Historic cemeteries are particularly at risk due to a number of environmental factors.

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Woonsocket council supports building after extent of Cato Street graves determined

WOONSOCKET – It was last October when experts dug into a plot on Cato Street and found multiple lost graves, temporarily upending the owners’ plan to build a new duplex

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Scout Kenyon s project helps people find buried loved ones | News

Scout Kenyon s project helps people find buried loved ones | News
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Graves of some who died at Rhode Island institutions lie under highway

The thousands of drivers who use a Rhode Island highway on their way to work every day probably have no idea they are passing over the graves of some people who died in the late 1800s and early 1900s at state institutions.

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Rhode Island highway built over graves from 1800s and early 1900s

Route 37 was built in the 1960s over part of a state institution cemetery. The state DOT says 1,000 of the graves should have been moved.

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