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Construction workers find human remains at Clinton site

It was a shocking discovery Thursday morning, September 3 for workers in Clinton, Iowa after human remains were found on the grounds of the county’s admin...
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It was a shocking discovery Thursday morning, September 3 for workers in Clinton, Iowa after human remains were found on the grounds of the county’s administrative building.

The county says a hill outside the building was starting to slide, so they wanted to build a retaining wall to protect it. Crews were digging when they found the human remains.

John Staszewski, Chairman for the Clinton County Board of Supervisors says it was a shock to everyone. It wasn’t until after he got a copy of an old newspaper that he found out a cemetery used to be there back in 1811. However, supposedly years later all the bodies were removed and transferred to another cemetery.  The state is now taking care of the issue. They collected the remains to further inspect them.

It’s not clear what the state will do with the remains when they’re done, but it is clear that the city won’t be putting up a retaining wall.

“We’ll just have to grade everything back. We can’t put a retaining wall up anymore so we have to go to another idea on how to save the hillside,” said Staszewski.

Staszewski says the city will have to rezone that area as a cemetery site.

 

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