11. Queens
Queens, New York has long been a diverse and rapidly shifting borough of New York. Formerly a strongly Dutch area, the township of Newton, where the iron coffin was laid, was at one time home to a large and independent free African American community. Researchers eventually learned that the site where the coffin was found was once home to an African American church, which would explain why her body was discovered there. However, it still doesn’t answer how she came to be buried in such an expensive coffin.