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Michael Hebert has faced some interesting cases in his time as archaeologist of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT), but nothing like this. Hebert, who has been with RIDOT since 1989, had seen construction site digs unearth and reveal fragments and pottery, burial sites and even forgotten buildings, but Hebert and his colleagues weren’t prepared in June 2006 when heavy rains and subsequent erosion exposed the human remains of 71 individuals on the northern side of Route 37 in Cranston, R.I., during a project behind the former Davol manufacturing building on Sockanosset Cross Road. By doing a much more sensitive kind of excavation work, Hebert and his colleagues learned over many months that the remains, dating from 1887 to 1917, were from what had been the unmarked State Farm Cemetery. From the first of their 19th century burials, to their accidental unearthing, to their public identifications and proper reburial with honored ceremony, it took 122 years, but a state highway department did it up right. A Stunning Scene When Route 37 was built in the early 1960s, state and federal laws did not mandate the many approval and review procedures that RIDOT follows today, prior to any work. With property simply marked on most maps as state-owned, and original wooden markers long rotted, the highway was inadvertently constructed over a section of a cemetery. “Route 37 was completed in 1968 and the old see CEMETERY page 8
An aerial shot of Route 37 and rear of 100 Sockanossett Cross Road/old Davol Building — now leased by Citizen’s Bank from Carpionato Corporation. The center of the old State Farm Cemetery is under the highway — the section that the drainage erosion/outwash is near the corner of the parking lot.
Shawmut Equipment Co. Opens S. Easton Facility Shawmut Equipment Company Inc. has opened a new full service facility in South Easton, Mass. As a Manitowoc Crane Group distributor, Shawmut Equipment Company sells and supports Grove, Manitowoc, National and Potain cranes in the six states of New England and the three Canadian Maritime provinces. Shawmut Equipment’s new Massachusetts facility provides several
acres of yard space for stocking new and used cranes, five large service bays, one wash bay, two parts warehousing areas, sales and service offices, a conference room, and a training room. The staff includes seven mechanics and two salesmen. The new facility also has six service trucks, all fully stocked with service manuals, welding equipment and parts. They see SHAWMUT page 14