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Managing Historical Discoveries on Private Land

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They FOUND 15 bodies BURIED on his land!

What happens here

A property owner recounts the unexpected discovery of a historical cemetery on his recently purchased land. He explains that the Iowa Cemetery group contacted him, informing him about the burial site. The headstones were reportedly removed decades ago and repurposed by previous owners for a sidewalk. The group helped locate and mark the individual graves using bricks, indicating approximately 15 to 20 buried individuals. The Iowa Pioneer Commission is now working to identify the names of those interred.

Goal: Understand the process of identifying and respecting historical burial sites on newly acquired property.

Tools and materials

  • Brick Markers — Temporarily marking identified grave sites
  • John Deere Gator John Deere — Touring the property to locate and view the cemetery site

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but i'll let him tell that story all right but this video is not over by any means we got we're gonna go have some fun now we're gonna see where some dead people are [Laughter] so what you discovered a cemetery you uncovered a cemetery on your property is that right yeah so we bought this last summer and we were contacted through mail by the iowa cemetery group and they asked us if they said there's a cemetery on your property along with your property lines um do we have permission to come in and clean it up so they came in last summer and found out where it was all the headstones were missing somebody came and took them years like years and years years ago and put them in their sidewalk going to their garage supposedly that story and so they found out where the bodies were um and they marked them all out so there's like 15 15 to 20 people buried on our property and you didn't know when you bought this no and you bought this last year yep dead serious all right let's go we're gonna go out through his property we're gonna go check this out so what you guys don't know is nolan installed this entire he bought this property like last year here two years ago and you put this entire gravel road in for under 10 grand yeah the first round of rock and uh all the dirt work was under 10 grand and then uh wild turkey oh there's we see all kinds of deer and turkey and no bear no bear looks like it's running with us maybe he'll come across in front of us hey don't run thanksgiving is like 10 months away we don't have a well so we got this is kind of a neat setup so we i raked up uh like 450 gallon tank okay um and then i've got a filter before the pump um pressures tank and then like a whole house filter after so if you can't drill a well but you need you know good running water bring something like that up where do you get the water from though where do you get the water from the um from in town so does the town have a public water supply uh well so we we live in town we've got a well okay um so hear that or your house or wherever but you probably wouldn't want to drink that but it's good enough for you know showering or you know using restroom or whatever we got tannerite all kinds of stuff out here you got what tana right oh you do yeah tannerite for you guys i don't know it's basically an explosive right i mean am i right with that yeah yeah once you hit it with a high glossy bullet it blows up you can take a you know a lighter or blow torch stick it right to it and…

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