The graves by the river

Ohio · USA · Cemetery

Behind the Red Cross office in Warren there is a graveyard on the edge of the Mahoning. At most thirty stones are left, worn past reading.

Half a mile along the same street from the tunnel, in Warren, Ohio, stands the Red Cross central office, and behind it, along the edge of the Mahoning River, there is a graveyard.

Thirty stones at most remain. They are worn and the dates are hard to make out.

A burial ground of this size behind an office building, on a river bank, is the sort of thing a town forgets by degrees rather than all at once. The church that served it goes, the families move away, the land is sold, and the stones stay because moving them costs money and nobody wants to be the one who did it.

What is reported there follows from that.

The Mahoning valley was steel country, and Warren's population turned over several times in a century as the mills drew people in and then closed.

The site is on private ground behind an office.

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Hvor ligger The graves by the river?

The graves by the river ligger i Ohio, USA.