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Cleaning out our storage unit the other week, we also ended up with a pile of things we wanted to donate to the local Goodwill. However, there were some toys we no longer needed or had space for and those instead went to “The Little Boy”.

In October 1855 a little boy arrived in Graniteville SC on a train. He was unconscious upon arrival. Concerned townspeople took him to the hotel…, where he died without regaining consciousness. Having no idea from whence he came or his name, he was buried in Graniteville Cemetery. People began leaving toys on his grave; they still do to this day.

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From what I understand, the groundskeepers will collect toys from the grave periodically, to make space for new gifts. The collected toys are then given to charity. So really this is just donation with more steps.

In addition to toys that I have given to The Little Boy over the years, I do have another connection with the story. The grave has a PokéStop in Pokémon GO, carried forward from Niantic's earlier game Ingress, where I had submitted it as an ingress Portal.