I am forever searching e-bay and I came across mention of a scrapbook with various newspaper clippings from 1902 in it from all over the US......the ad had a clipping of a Trenton news article dated, Dec. 23 that I'm curious about, since I've never heard of the area mentioned: "Skeletons unearthed,smallpox victims' bones alarmed workmen at Trenton- Special despatch to "The Press"- Trenton, Dec. 23- Men who were digging cellars in a suburb of the city yesterday unearthed many bones of persons buried there about forty years ago. The place is know as "Gallows Hill", on account of lynchings and suicides that occured there many years ago. The place was also used as a potters' field. Laborers engaged in the construction of the Delaware and Raritan Canal who were" ...the article ends there in the ad. Does anyone know anything about this "Gallows Hill", where it was exactly and its history? I've never heard of it before nor the colorful history that gave it it's name.-Cheryl _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Cheryl, If you go to the end of the chapter on Charitable Institutions in the History of Trenton you'll find a brief paragraph about Gallow's Hill Cemetery: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/%7Etrenton/historyoftrenton/charitable .htm Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Natriello" <jerseyties@hotmail.com> To: <NJMERCER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 1:22 PM Subject: Unidentified subject! > I am forever searching e-bay and I came across mention of a scrapbook with > various newspaper clippings from 1902 in it from all over the US......the ad > had a clipping of a Trenton news article dated, Dec. 23 that I'm curious > about, since I've never heard of the area mentioned: > "Skeletons unearthed,smallpox victims' bones alarmed workmen at Trenton- > Special despatch to "The Press"- > Trenton, Dec. 23- Men who were digging cellars in a suburb of the city > yesterday unearthed many bones of persons buried there about forty years > ago. The place is know as "Gallows Hill", on account of lynchings and > suicides that occured there many years ago. The place was also used as a > potters' field. Laborers engaged in the construction of the Delaware and > Raritan Canal who were" ...the article ends there in the ad. > Does anyone know anything about this "Gallows Hill", where it was exactly > and its history? I've never heard of it before nor the colorful history that > gave it it's name.-Cheryl > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > ============================== > Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >