Underneath the swing sets of an urban playground in the Queen
Village neighborhood of South Philadelphia are the forgotten
remains of an estimated 3,000 African-Americans.  This week, a
team of archaeologists broke the asphalt in four places at
Weccecoe Park, digging to a depth of 3 feet to uncover evidence
of the 19th century burial site. On Thursday morning, the fourth
and final trench revealed a single gravestone.  "Amelia Brown,
1819, Aged 26 years" is clearly carved into the white stone,
with this epitaph: "Whosoever live and believeth in me, though
we be dead, yet shall we live."  "There is no grave shaft
associated with that stone, it's just sitting loose in the
fill," said Douglas Mooney, senior archaeologist for URS
corporation. "It was knocked over at some point, long ago, when
the cemetery was filled in in the mid-19th century. It no longer
marks an actual grave. It's just a loose stone in the ground."
The gravestone is the pièce de résistance for this dig, but not
the goal. Mooney and his team fo