A non-profit is joining the effort to try to identify the remains of a girl found in a former cemetery in Sanford that appear to date back to the Victorian era.
According to the Portland Press Herald, the remains were found on Main Street in 2017 at the site where a Cumberland Farms was under construction.
Workers who were digging found the skeletal remains and pieces of a Victorian-era coffin.
The DNA Doe Project, which tries to identify Jane and John Does through investigative genetic genealogy, has taken on the case. They’re expected to have more information about the girl’s identity within the next few months.
The area used to be where the Woodland Cemetery was located. The cemetery was relocated around 1900 to make room for the Emerson School. The school was then demolished in 2013, and the property was sold to Cumberland Farms in 2016.
