Potter's Field

North Carolina · USA · Cemetery

When the new high school was built in the 1970s, the old county home graveyard was dug up to make room for it, and the graves were moved across the road.

When the new high school was built outside Asheville, North Carolina in the 1970s, what remained of the Old County Home Graveyard was dug up to make room for the building.

The people buried in it were moved across the road. They were transients, and people who had died of illness with nobody to claim them: a potter's field in the proper sense of the term.

What is reported at the school follows from that.

A county home graveyard holds the poorest dead of a county, buried at public expense, usually with a number rather than a name. Records for such burials were kept badly or not at all, which means that when a cemetery of this kind is moved, nobody can be certain that everyone was found.

Students at the school know the story, and they know which side of the road the graves went to.

The school is in use.

FAQ

Hvor ligger Potter's Field?

Potter's Field ligger i North Carolina, USA.