Taj Simmons is a multimedia journalist who joined WRTV in August 2023.
INDIANAPOLIS — The clearing of the Eleven Park site on Kentucky Avenue and West Street unearthed human remains from a long-abandoned graveyard. An Indy Eleven supporter group wants the team to build a memorial for the former cemetery near the stadium.
"As an educator and as a historian, I believe that when you forget your past, you are doomed to repeat it," Slocum said."We do not want to have any of the past of this site repeated. It should be honored, it should be memorialized, and it should be included in the future of this space." "I want skeletal remains that are in that site to be properly exhumed and taken care of," Slocum said."I think there are a lot of people who didn't know that such a large graveyard presence existed there, but they know now."
"If any people were removed from that section in the past, there's just no records to indicate that," Bates said."Potentially, we could find hundreds, if not thousands of people."
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