Template:Did you know nominations/Hart Island (Bronx)
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:26, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hart Island (Bronx)[edit]
- ... that New York City's Hart Island contains the largest taxpayer-funded cemetery in the United States, if not the world? Source: (1) PRI says Hart Island has the largest cemetery in the US, but (2) The Telegraph says it is the largest in the world.
- ALT1:... that New York City's Hart Island has hosted a prisoner-of-war camp, a psychiatric institution, a tuberculosis sanatorium, a potter's field, a homeless shelter, a boy's reformatory, several prisons, and a drug rehabilitation center throughout its history? Sources: (1) NY Times 2013. "... a chronology that includes uses as a Civil War prison, a lunatic asylum, a tuberculosis hospital and a boys’ reformatory." (2) The Other Islands of New York City: A History and Guide (Third Edition) mentions the homeless shelter, drug rehab center, and cemetery (potter's field).
- ALT2:... that more than one million people are buried on Hart Island, the potter's field for New York City? Source: The Telegraph (linked above). "But perhaps its most fascinating legacy has been its function as America’s largest mass burial site (and the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world), where more than a million unclaimed and unidentified bodies have been buried since 1868."
Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 02:24, 4 April 2019 (UTC).
Article promoted recently enough; no plagiarism; well-sourced; hooks all cited and verified (personally I like ALT2 best because the number is quite striking). Just waiting for a QPQ and then good to go! Enwebb (talk) 21:55, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Enwebb: Thank you very much for the review, I did a QPQ now. epicgenius (talk) 01:56, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
