SYRACUSE (AP) -- The remains of 80 people buried in the mid-19th century have been moved as part of a community college renovation in central New York.
The Syracuse Post-Standard reports the bodies of homeless people who died at the Onondaga County Poorhouse between 1826 and 1840 were reburied Wednesday during work at Onondaga Community College.
The remains were found by archaeologists studying the poorhouse property before it was converted to use by the college.
Genealogist Nancy Maliwesky says the only remains identified were those of three Kingman family children, aged 2, 4 and 7, who died in early 1832.
The bones were studied at Binghamton University and reinterred at a cemetery about two miles from where they were found.
Other remains were discovered after a fuel tank leak in 1996.
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