butchndad
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A few blocks from my home a couple of years ago, a funeral home was torn down, excavated and the ground leveled. Work was then halted on a zoning challenge. According to their website they were there for 105 years. Walking the site over the past two days I found 3 trays full of broken bottles and only one (mostly) intact bottle. The name on the bottle is CHAS.HARRIS and the address that if the funeral home so clearly Chas Harris was there before 1910. How much before I will try to learn when the library reopens. Most of the pieces are clearly from identical bottles. You’ll see in the photos more than a dozen tops. My nightmare is that dozens or more of these bottles were sitting forgotten in the basement of the building when the funeral home took over and then were destroyed by the excavation. I can only imagine how many broken or perhaps not are there buried in the ground. I’m going to keep watch for a time when they start to dig the foundation of the new building.