Pioneer Cemetery - Franklin Mills Traditional Geocache

Pioneer Cemetery is on Stow Street, visible from Rt. 59, near Kramer Fields. This is an old cemetery with many unreadable stones. Recent upgrades are evidence that the local historical society and the city are doing a fine job of restoring and maintaining this historical graveyard. As in all cemeteries, please be careful, respectful, and hunt the cache in daylight hours only.

Two centuries ago, in 1805, an enterprising man named John Haymaker ventured westward to the newly formed state of Ohio and settled with his family on the banks of the Cuyahoga River. The river was the essential element in the growth and development of Franklin Mills, which in 1863 was renamed Kent. Pioneer Cemetery, started in 1810 holds the graves of the Haymaker family and other early settlers of Kent and Franklin Township.

Bring a pencil or pen to sign the logbook as this is a very small cache. Trade items will not fit in the cache.