Wayne Public Library, NJ

How #WayneCounty MI Made The House Of Diggs Famous: #TheMoorYouKnow (White Sheets In Wooden Coffins)

Early patients were buried by inmates & staff In 1937 the contract was given to Charles C. Diggs Sr.

Eloise was founded as a poorhouse in 1839 with More than 7,100 patients serving 30,000 meals daily

#IndigenousHeritageMonth What Does Eloise Have To Do With The Civil War And Reconstruction Era? 🤔

#TheMoorYouKnow Wayne County MI Potter's Field; Buried The Poor Unclaimed Dead At The Public Expense

The presence of over 7,000 marked numbered but unnamed graves & The absence of many ledger records…

#DidYouKnow 1 of 3 Eloise cemeteries is surrounded by pine trees & Is the one used from 1910 to 1948

1892 Bishop John Samuel Foley buried bodies NW of the CountyHouse next to an island in the reservoir

#HidStories👀 Most burials were of adult males, But there are women and a few infants and children: