'Unexpected find at construction site'...

It all started last November in the historic part of Philadelphia.
A construction crew digging to start a new high rise
apartment building unearthed some old bones... old bones
that turned out to be, after their examination, from the
18th century.  Seems that there was at one time an old
cemetery at that site.. and the people buried there were
supposed to be moved many years ago.... but we all
know what happens when things are 'supposed' to happen
but never get accomplished.

Any
way.. what started out as a few bones has now become about 70 old coffins, most with full remains in them.

And so things stopped for a few days while the city,  the construction crew and public health people tried to figure out their course of
action...

Here is the rest of the story;

Construction workers in Philadelphia made a bone-chilling discovery at the site of a forthcoming apartment complex.

The crew on Thursday uncovered dozens of coffins at the former parking lot near 2nd and Arch Sts. in Old City, ultimately bringing work on the new residence to a complete stand-still, CBS Philadelphia reported.

In November, PMC Property Group contractor discovered a few bones during the excavation of the site. As it turns out though, they’ve stumbled upon an 18th century cemetery, according to the news station.

Now historians, anthropologists and other experts are working to unearth the rest of the remains and study what’s left

“One of the goals of this project is to very carefully recover the remains and then give them a full analysis so that we really understand who we have here,” Rutgers-Camden professor Kimberlee Moran told ABC.

They’ve been able to dig up some coffins fully intact, though many of their discoveries are significantly deteriorated.

The site once housed the burial grounds of the First Baptist Church, established in 1707, according to the news station. In 1859, however, the remains were supposed to have been exhumed and relocated to Mount Moriah Cemetery.

After examination, the remains will be buried finally at the Mount Moriah Cemetery.