gueribo
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Baja Cemeteries
Hi, all--
Sorry if this has been posted before . . . there is a wonderful blog about Mexican cemeteries, many of the posts about Baja.
https://cementeriosdemexico.blogspot.com/
Look on the right side for the list. Great photos and descriptions (if you read Spanish).
For example, here's the page about the Mulegé mission cemetery:
https://cementeriosdemexico.blogspot.com/p/cementerios-de-ba...
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David K
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Harald (4x4abc) has a Facebook page and Google Earth map of graves and tombs.
Thanks for the post!
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I learned an interesting tid-bit of information on a walking tour in Charleston. The difference between a graveyard and a cemetery. A graveyard is
on church property and a cemetery is separate from a church.
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David K
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bent-rim: Very Cool!
Here is the Facebook page from Harald: Tumbas y Panteones de Baja California https://www.facebook.com/groups/708133530349086
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A lot of missions have mass graves for the many indigenous laborers who died building a church. maybe those who study missions and maps could shed
some light on the final resting place of these "pagans".
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David K
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Deaths were generally not from building churches but occurred from diseases that Natives had no resistance to, much like Covid first being spread from
China.
I have never seen or read about any mass graves. It is a shame they (and others) were not preserved so we could pay respect to all past lives. The few
graves that were marked when we visited the missions were obviously just a small representation of those who have died at the missions.
Archeologists digging at Mission San Fernando did find some human remains near the church, I saw in a report from a 2016 research work.
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