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tiglathpilesar t1_itpwell wrote

How, in all my years of living here, did I not know there was a gravesite on Belle? I mean, I should have assumed b/c god knows how many people have died there. OP, directionally, where on the island is it so I can find it the next time I go?

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EricLambert_RVAspark OP t1_itq03od wrote

Also, we were told the bodies have been exhumed, but the history remains, and the site has been marked as a reminder.

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Asterion7 t1_itq2bu0 wrote

Why would they seal it off if the bodies had been removed?

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EricLambert_RVAspark OP t1_itq4h5m wrote

Its not sealed off, there are openings for those that want to walk in. Its just a reminder of what was there and the suffering they went through. I'm not a history expert, but I believe its said that prisoner island was one of the worst during the civil war.

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tiglathpilesar t1_itr2zul wrote

I've read/heard that it was a really shitty place to be a POW. Lack of food, lack of blankets and lack of shelter. So this:
>worst during the civil war

Seems about right.

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Chad_Big_C0ck t1_itupefl wrote

So it is POW graves? How are there only like 4 total? I'd assume it'd be dozens to hundreds (cold, disease, non-immediately lethal shot before being captured, etc)

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J-Colio t1_itpzfto wrote

If you take the suspension bridge underneath the Lee bridge, then it's quickly upcoming on your right. If you're going from Manchester, then take the 22nd (ish) St to go down that spiral staircase right across from that big apartment building, go right to follow the train tracks to the truss bridge, follow the path to where you're parallel/almost underneath belvedere and keep going and it'll eventually be on your left. On the way to "first break rapids."

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J-Colio t1_itq1zvb wrote

Yes, there's some scaffolding on the Belle isle side, but it's not been closed for some months now. IDK what they're doing with that...

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Chad_Big_C0ck t1_ituphyv wrote

I think it was so concrete chunks don't fall and kill people walking across it, the bridges bump into each other in some kind of design flaw.

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Asterion7 t1_itq2929 wrote

You have probably walked over it many times.

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EricLambert_RVAspark OP t1_itpyvti wrote

its on the Northern part of the path that loops around the old quarry pond. Kind of hard to miss it. especially now there is a fence around it.

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