This is a series highlighting small cemeteries that I have found interesting.
This small and nearly forgotten two-centuries-old cemetery is encircled by a four-foot-tall masonry wall. Oddly enough, it has no gate or entrance. The only way in is to scale the crumbling stone boundary. It’s as if it was built to keep people out…or something inside. The graveyard is commonly referred to as Hans Graf Cemetery due to the engraved name embedded in the wall. It reads, “Within this God’s Acre rest the descendants of Hans Graf.” Graf was a Swiss Mennonite and one of the County’s earliest settlers along the Susquehanna. It’s worth noting that Hans Graf, who died in 1746, isn’t even buried there. He’s interred at the Groffdale Mennonite Brick Church Cemetery in Leola.
Please be respectful. No Night Caching.