Walnut Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of the famous Ringling Brothers, George W. Brown who is the founder of Baraboo, William H. Canfield who is Sauk Countys first surveyor and earliest historian, John Duckins who was a run away slave from Kentuky and Roseline Peck who was the first white woman to settle in Baraboo and was a celebrated pioneer. Al Ringlings masoleum is built of Vermont granite - the top slab weighs 12 tons!
The Baraboo Cemetery Association was formed on August 11,1855 when burials from three other Baraboo cemeteries were consolidated on Walnut Hill’s ten acre site.
As with all cemetery caches, the cache is not on or around any graves and please be very respectful to the site and those who are laid to rest here. I was very fortunate to get permission to place a cache here by Rick Stieve Supt. Walnut Hill Cemetery and if there are any problems we will lose the privilage of having a cache placed here.