Havana’s Human Boneyard, the Necropolis Cristobal Colon ca. 1895 – 1910.
The old Spanish custom of burial in Cuba is to rent a lot in a cemetery, not buy it outright, as is the procedure in America. When the rental is not paid, the body is removed, placed in quicklime to take off all the flesh, and the skeleton thrown into an enclosure. As a result of many years of such gruesome practice, the enclosure now contains thousands of these skeletons. – Popular Mechanics, July, 1909.
