For years, rumors and suppositions have swirled about what’s beneath the large mound in the northwest corner of Davenport’s historic City Cemetery.
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Chad Goings, of Washington, Iowa, uses a ground-penetrating radar machine to survey a mound in Davenport's City Cemetery.
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