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Haymarket Time Capsule Mystery: Researchers, Archaeologists and Historians to Speak on October 27 (Video)

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Forest Park, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 10, 2016. On October 3, 2016, archaeologists unearthed a concrete cylinder with marble caps near the Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park. Researchers believe it could be the Haymarket time capsule buried in 1892 by supporters of the anarchist Haymarket Martyrs.

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Oak Park librarian Bleue Benton hunted for clues including 1892 newspaper mentions of the time capsule. In the University of Michigan archives of the Pioneer Aid Society,…

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