Hart Island
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Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart's Island, is located at the western end of Long Island Sound, in the northeastern Bronx in New York City. Measuring approximately 1 mile long by 0.33 miles w
Aerial view of Hart Island, in 2012
1884 Nautical Chart
A trench at the potter's field on Hart Island, circa 1890 by Jacob Riis
Convalescent Hospital on Hart Island, 1877
Potter's field
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A potter's field, paupers' grave or common grave is a place for the burial of unknown, unclaimed or poverty-stricken people. The term "potter's field" is of Biblical origin, and refers to Akeldama, wh
Hart Island
…Troops in 1864. Since then, Hart Island has been the location of a Union Civil War prison camp, a psychiatric institution, a tuberculosis sanatorium, a potter's field used for both individual and mass burials, a homeless shelter, a boys' reformatory and workhouse, a jail, and a drug rehabilitation center. Several…
Potter's field in Dunn County, Wisconsin
"I come to claim my dead" drawing by William Thomas Smedley, circa 1884