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Name: Jefferson Davis Hospital, Houston, Texas
Location Type: Other
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Coordinates: 29.758938, -95.367697
Description:
The hospital opened in 1925, and it had been built over an 1840s city cemetery that held thousands of graves. Many were unmarked, suspected to be cholera and yellow fever victims. Although some gravesites were moved, it is said that the actual remains were not transferred along with them. The...