The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-06
FIND OLD INDIAN BURNING GROUND ION GOLDEN HILL Excavation at High School Site Reveals Long Sought
 Cemetery. RICH INDIAN FINDS
 LIKELY TO RESULT. Bodies Uncovered Today Be Iieved to Belong to Paul
 gusett Chieftains.

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 rasceverv of the ancient buryfng -xround of the Golden Hill Indians. be- 1svsd to have been used long before ! the white man settled this country, and at least during that period when Il vfrxfn forests covered this section. was made this morning by excavators. ern- ployed in trenching for sewer on the new high school building grounds
 But for the keen eye of Superfnten- derx Henry Baas the discovery of at 4 least three bodies with the probs bfIty that history would have been deprived of the greatest Indian find in this section since the East Haven cemetery was opened in 1Sz2s would have gons intezrated that the 1aborers at frst did not realize their ctaracter or Inn portant significance to the cornm11n- ity.
 The ind. which has already uncover ed portions of three skeletons with well outlined skulls, showing that the or4g1na1s were of a. tribe possessing extremely narrow foreheads and though fully developed of small sta- 4urs was made upon the highest spot on Golden F5fI almost directly under the shade of an old tree, and upon ! knoll which is said never to have been touched since pr1meaval times
 Though. the old Kelly house stood tnoaEDX ana D6IOI0 l11<4L a AASAoC S11~ ! to have been occupied by a, Hard or E4urd family the excavations show kplain1y that alforest covered the ground Ea1ovs that in which the interTnents were made and from the con01flon or ffhe bones and stata of soil the bodies are determined to be between two and three hundred years under ground
 Pieces of shell buried with the bodies land small ossiied articles nearby are tr- k-- f--. l,af aa of those buried on Golden HdH were }. the remains of Indians of promin- ence- This fact Is further borne out from the knowledge that the Golden E7ftt centuries was down below the hill near the Pequonnock river
 with tho necessity of eventually a1adfng the premises in front of the 5Rew high school on Golden Hih street f5t is believed that antiquarians and those interested in the history of Bridgeport will this afternoon obtain permission to level the small knoll that all the graves may be fully ex- plored- That this worzA will tend 7o disclose many ske1etons and prob 5 bIy further reveal the age and type o9 aborgines inhabdting this coast be- fore the settler arrived is unqueston- ed in archaeological circles today
 It may be stated for those, who are not familiar with Indian tradition of this section, that before the white tHnan landed on these shores the Pau Lgussett or Wepauwaug Indians lived Ion the west bank of the Housatonic I river. On the east were the Quinni- piacs of New Haven to the west were Ethe Uncowas of Fairfield, while to the north were the PotatucIs of New ffown- Each held it's allotted territory land though they often warreds gener-7 ally they lived in peace upon their town territory although when in the l k16oVs the Pequots came to ravage Fairfield, the Wepauwaug's, of which the Golden Hiu Indians were a tribal t7branch, were suspected of harbouring them and giving friendly aid
 The Golden Hiu tribe as far back as lthe documentary evidence of the col o1y goes. always lived, in the section es from the. easterly shore of the Pc quonnock known as Stratford-
 History records that in the year 1887 , fhe Indian band was quite mum merous here and that they were greatly feared EbT the settlers who enforced regula- tions that not more than two Indians bshou1d come into the settlement at Lone time during the day. and that they ' must not enter the settlers homes or exa mine their firearms, or prow1 at might Later when the Indians on the Hin began to follow the settlers example and raise hordes of pigs, a fence was caused to be erected at lrthe boundary of the Indian settlement
 
 tf1ds time there were about 30 or more acres under cultivation and ancient deeds to settlers showed that for years fsthey had cleared and cultivated land in this section
 In the year 1859. the So acres were set aside on Golden s1iu as a reserve fions at which time the tribe was a very large one. It d7vfndled grad uz1ly until in 1765 there were but three women and four men upon the reservation and the whites began to encroach upon the property. The matter was brought into the courts and a. decision rendered in favor of the land were ordered to return it. but an agreement was entered into whereby for 30 bushels of corn, other trinkets and blankets with a small acreage of. land on Rocky HiII," near ! the present site of Main street and North Washington avenue, the In dfans re1inqu1shed their right to the uants Of the tribe later removed to Milford where their famous Chief ' onckapotanaugh died in 1765.
 One Of the interesting features of the find today is that apparently shells and other tr1nlxets were buried with the Indians, while with one ex- ceptdon their heads point towards the southwest or direction in which the superstition of the Indians or this section placed their Great Unseen chief The hands were folded across the breast SvVI1i1e the bodies Tec1ined in a Horizontal position
 Tn the last recorded unearthing of an Indian cemetery of great age not one trinacet or article of food was found in the graves at East Haven. pointing probably to the fact that