The airport is usually the last place you want to encounter surprises. This goes double if you speak surprises of morbid variety, but that's exactly what you'll see if you ever fly into the international airport Savannah / Hilton Head to Savannah, Georgia.
Thanks to a decision by the army during the Second World War, one of the tracks used makeshift cemetery.
If you have a keen eye and you fly in on runway 10, you will notice two concrete slabs that do not seem like they belong there.
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This is a close-up, courtesy of Google Maps.
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What you are seeing here are two markers of concrete grave. Before there was an airport, the land belonged to the Dotson family. As part of their property, the property also included a family cemetery with at least a dozen (and possibly up to 100) graves.
During World War II, the military has taken over what was once a small airport and expanded several of its tracks. One of these extensions reached where the family cemetery was.
The military needed to open the cemetery to create an east-west runway.
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most of the bodies were found and moved to different cemeteries, except for those of John, Catherine and Richard Dotson, and the corpse of a man named Daniel Hueston.
To commemorate the two concrete slabs were integrated into the roadway.
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(via Consumerist)
well, it looks like my morbid curiosity takes me to Georgia next! Who is coming with me?
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