Historians find 150-year-old mass grave in Jonesborough
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) – 150 years after disease ravaged Tennessee’s oldest town, historians believe they’ve discovered a mass grave of residents struck down by cholera. 1873: Pestilence Visits Jonesborough In the summer of 1873, a wave of cholera swept the American South. The disease, caused by a bacterial infection of Vibrio cholerae, followed railroad lines […]
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