burying place

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Founded around 1828, the cemetery was a burying place for at least 500 people enslaved on nearby plantations in Harris County.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2023

Last week, as the tenth day of the ordeal dawned, sightseers from all over New Delhi streamed to the burying place afoot and on camelback to watch Narayan's disinterment.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were trees and fields to the north of the Common and the burying place for Africans.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Now, nobody usually ventured into the mountains because long ago one of them had been opened up and used as a burying place for princes.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

Out of three hundred and sixty one Americans, who came last on board, eighty-four were, in the course of three months, buried in the surrounding marshes, the burying place of the prison ships.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin