The Palladio Apartments are built on top of ancient burial grounds

Wow, what a great selling point! The Palladio Apartments in downtown Salt Lake City are built on an old Indian and pioneer graveyard! But don't expect this fact to be on their Apartments.com description...

Now I know what you are thinking...Isn't this the exact plot of the Poltergeist movie? Well, yes. It is exactly that.

Well, that being said there is no signs of hauntings that I have been aware of, but who knows. It still is a little creepy though.

Here is a picture of the monument placed on the South-West corner of 3rd South and 2nd West:

The text of the marker is as follows:

Utah's First

Pioneer

Burial Site

 Utah's first pioneer burial site
was located just thirty feet west
and two hundred feet south of
this point. Here, thirty-three
Utah pioneers were buried
beginning with three year-old
Milton Thirlkill. This
youngster from Mississippi
drowned in 11 August 1847 in
City Creek, three days after
arringing in the Salt Lake Valley.
 Other pioneers known to have
rested here include Caroline
Van Dyke Grant (26 Sept.
1847), Eliza Ann Rich (11 Feb.
1849), perhaps Laura Exphena
Rich (7-9 May 1849), and other
unidentified members of the
Charles C. Rich and Vincent
Shurtliff families.
 Lost to memory for decades,
the site was discovered during
construction work in 1986,
The burials had been placed by
the pioneers in the soft earth of
a prehistoric Indian mound
which, when excavated, also
revealed several Native
American burials.
 The burial site was one block
east of the "old Fort" (now
Pioneer Park). Salt Lake City's
first settlement site. The Fort
soon expanded onto the blocks
to the north and south. The site
would have initially served this
early municipal area.
 All surviving remains were
scientifically removed and
carefully reinterred.
Unfortunately, not all the
remains could be identified on
the basis of existing records.
The pioneers are reburied in an
appropriate historic setting at
Pioneer Trail State Park, 2601
Sunnyside Avenue, Salt Lake
City, overlooking the valley
they came to settle.

Placed by the Block 49
Commitee 30 May 1987