Is it illegal to put houses on old graveyards?

Question

My neighbor said that our houses were built on an old burial ground but i thought it was illegal so i just want to know/

my house is like 1 1/2 years old

Answer 1

How old is the house???

Years ago, old burrial grounds did not have the respect that they do today, so it's possible that what your neighbor said is true...

Today, it would be much more difficult (if not impossible) to do this kind of thing.

Answer 2

Old cemeteries do get decommissioned from time to time if nobody can maintain them any longer. A Home Depot parking garage near my house was built on top of a Jewish cemetery that had been around sometime before World War I. The Orthodox Jewish congregation that was in charge of it was slowly disappearing, their members were all becoming elderly, and they were no longer able to properly take care of the place. The gravestones were being vandalized, and everything was overgrown with weeds. So Home Depot made an agreement with them and promised to relocate the remains of their relatives to Israel and payed them for the land so they could build their store there. Unfortunately there was a big scandal because the contractor in charge of the excavation overlooked a lot of the remains in the children's section of the cemetery and conveniently disposed of them somewhere in a nearby landfill instead.

Answer 3

Laws vary from place to place.If a house is put on a burial ground all human remains must be relocated first and it must be disclosed to the buyer.If the buyer is deceived there can be a law suit because of it.Native burial grounds cannot be built on it is unethical and illegal.Some homes have been in the past and during heavy rains the smell from it has been unbearable with the stench of death.

Answer 4

If the caskets were legally relocated, it is possible. Up North, a medical college had a graveyard relocated to build the building.