(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Development of a soccer stadium leads to a historical mystery in Indiana.
The developer who is building a professional soccer stadium in Indianapolis says crews found fragments of human remains on the construction site.
When completed, the future home of the Indy Eleven will include a stadium, apartments, a music venue, green spaces and a parking garage along with retail and office space.
The development is on the site of an old factory, but it also overlaps the former site of Greenlawn Cemetery. At one time, it was the largest burial site for African Americans in the state.
Greenlawn closed in 1890. Most of the bodies were buried in other cemeteries.
The developers are working with genealogists and historic preservationists to make sure the remains are property identified and reinterred.
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