Pioneer cemetery paved over, replaced by Dollar General. It sounds like a parody of the kind of indifference government and corporate elites have for our history, our communities, and our health. But for Steubenville, Ohio, it’s just politics as usual.

It’s the latest unpopular proposal coming from a city government staring at a decades-long deficit of good ideas. And typical of government plans in many similar cities

They dug up the dead

For almost as long as there has been a Steubenville, the plot at 237 South Fourth Street has been public property. Bezaleel Wells, the twenty-four-year-old wool magnate, university administrator and politician who founded Steubenville in 1797, set aside two acres here for a graveyard. For half a century the town’s pioneers, including Wells himself, wer

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