SCHNECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – We got a Schenectady history lesson on Wednesday, after human remains from the 1800s were unearthed in the Electric City on Monday. NEWS10 has more on the neighborhood's history from the Schenectady County Historical Society.

Librarian and Archivist Marietta Carr said that section of Hamilton Hill was a cemetery, and it's been well documented. She shared who potentially could have been buried there.

Schenectady County Historical Society has been documenting the city’s history for more than a century. The old cemetery was attached to the Almshouse, also known as the Poorhouse. Carr explains who lived there.

“They'd been deemed unable to support themselves and wards of the county or wards of the city. They were gathered together and put into this institution of

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