#pine boxes

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Three nice little pinewood boxes to hold the seeds I've been collecting. Sunflower seeds from the grocery store, safflower seeds fallen from a mixed birdseed bin at work, and Golden Candles (Thermopsis lupinoides) seed pods gathered from the landscaping at a nearby housing development in the forest. The set of all three boxes was just $10 from Paper Mart.

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Just remeber this.. feeling of emptiness

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Graveyard dating back to 19th century found below California construction site

Construction at a portion of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center has stopped in San Jose, Calif. because crews have unearthed pine boxes filled with the bodies of those whose families couldn't afford their proper burials, NBC Bay Area has learned.

The pine boxes date back to between 1875 and 1935, and were discovered in February when construction crews were doing seismic survey work, Santa Clara County counsel Michael Rossi said Tuesday.

He said the county had no idea there was a cemetery on the property.

"It’s a potter’s field or a pauper’s graveyard. Between 1875 and 1935 at Valley Medical Center, people who died indigent, whose families couldn’t be found were buried at this site," Rossi said.

There are as many as 1,445 bodies on the site. The county filed a petition with the court to get permission to remove at least 100 of the pine coffins to make room for construction.

The county is looking into hiring an archaeologist who specializes in this type of find, Rossi said. Read more.