Burials at Hart Island, New York

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The Hart Island Project

"Soon after the workhouse opened in 1869, burials of unclaimed and unidentified people began on Hart Island. Inmates from Blackwell’s Island Penitentiary traveled by ferry accompanied by bodies released for burial from the city morgue at Bellevue Hospital. Riker’s Island inmates performed the burials until COVID-19 pandemic ended the use of inmate labor on April 3, 2021.  Mass burials on Hart Island began in 1872. A numbered grid system was implemented to facilitate disinterments for later identification at the morgue. Today, most of the buried are identified."

https://www.hartisland.net/