potter's field

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But in October, the remains of at least 12 people were discovered in a mass grave in what was once the Black potter’s field within Oaklawn.

From New York Times

Dina Maniotis, a deputy commissioner with the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, told a city council committee on Wednesday that many of the bodies held at the 39th Street Pier could end up buried in the city’s potter’s field on Hart Island.

From Seattle Times

A sonnet is engraved on a monument, photographed on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, found in Potter’s Field in East Knoxville.

From Washington Times

Leo York and a group of commissioners and community members are working to reunite Hade Black, a freed slave, buried in a forgotten cemetery on the edge of TVA property and his wife, buried in a Knoxville potter’s field.

From Washington Times

Workers in hazmat suits were seen lowering wooden coffins, stacked neatly on top of each other, into deep trenches dug in a potter’s field off the coast of the Bronx.

From Washington Times