Preservation: Where the Bodies are Buried

Where the Bodies are Buried   In 2007, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco was expanding its facility. The foundation of the new education center and Company F Headquarters was already in place, and crews were burying utility lines. The state was paying $2.1 million to complete the project. Then diggers found human remains—a lot of them, an estimated 190, mostly from the 19th century. The former First Street Cemetery had been relocated 40 years ago; it turns out that only the