I was surprised to see evidence of how devastating the Spanish Flu was in 1918. My group searched a couple of plots in the cemetery, and at one point we saw about four or five gravestones in a group that all had people who passed away in 1918...one was even an infant grave. We also found a fair number of deaths in 1917 and 1919, which I feel could have still been due to the flu, even though its most prominent year was 1918.
The Asiatic Clam's scientific name is corbicula fluminia. It is an invasive species, brought to North America in 1924 by Asian immigrants who ate it.
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