In Harlem, African-American colonial-era graveyard confirmed

One of few remaining African-American historical sites from the colonial period is certified with the excavation of bones and bone fragments discovered under a large bus depot.

By Lonnie Shekhtman

Article Reprintharlem graveyard

It’s hard to imagine that the bustling Harlem neighborhood of New York City was once a bucolic, Dutch waterfront village, anchored by the Reformed Low Dutch Church of Harlem, today called the Elmendorf Reformed Church.

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