Back in November of 2009, a large tree stump was removed from the west side of the Van Orden Mansion on Fourth Avenue, and a worker was cleaning up some of the residual roots. As he was digging, he came across a sandstone slab about four feet square. When he pried it up, he discovered a three-foot wide cement-lined hole.
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