Memories from Old Wilmingtoni
was a kid when they found coffins...my grandfather Pietro Pesce dug a
13 foot wine celler at our house on bancroft and found bones..
At
the corner of lancaster ave & bancroft pkwy. when they started to
build house's up bancroft pkwy. that's when they dug up a lot of
graves....it was a colored -(black) graveyard
In the
early 1970's when the bank at 2nd and Union Sts. was going to do some
remodeling to the old A&P supermarket next store in order to make
it their precious metal site, they found coffins during the excavation.
Maybe they were from the influenza.