Public works crews unearth dozens of empty coffins, single bone at Duluth site

Crews digging near an intersection in Duluth in preparation for future road construction have come across 55 coffins — all of them believed to be empty — as well as a single bone that appeared to be human.

St. Louis County Public Works employees were looking for any evidence of human remains as part of a planned archaeological exploratory dig last week in advance of a scheduled project to widen Rice Lake Road north of Arrowhead Road in 2020.

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