I wrote an historical feature on the Kettleby Cemetery years ago and thought it would be a great place for a hide. This is only our second geocache hide, our first being a simple hike and grab along the East Holland River trails. Please note it does not involve any grave markers.
Please practice proper caching etiquette and place the cache back EXACTLY as you found it..
Take some time to explore some of the headstones that date back to the early 1800s while you're here or sit a spell on one of the benches and reflect on the pioneers around you who made this area great.
Please note the cemetery is not gated, but is only open from dawn to dusk. (In all honesty it'd be a little creepy in here at night anyway). Please be respectful of the sanctity of this place while visiting for the geocache.
Kettleby was established no later than 1825, when Jacob Tool of Pennsylvania purchased 100 acres (0.40 km2) in a wide ravine, including a stream.[1] He built a sawmill powered by the stream's flow, but little other development occurred in the area. It was the industrious Septimus Tyrwhitt, who purchased 46 acres (190,000 m2) of Tool's property in 1842, that spurred development of more mills and the eventual settlement of Kettleby.[1] Early settlers often referred to it as Tyrwhitt's Mills, in honour of Tyrwhitt. However, he disapproved of the name, and his wife subsequently named the hamlet Kettleby, after the Tyrwhitt family ancestral home in Lincolnshire, England. That the name Kettle Bee derived from the construction bee of raising Tyrwhitt's mill, which drew many men from surrounding villages, is a local urban legend.[1] Tyrwhitt was named reeve of King Township in 1852.[2]
On August 6, 1851, the first post office was opened, and was styled Kettleby Mills, Canada West. In September 1859, it was renamed Kettleby, by which name it is still known today.