Pioneer Cemetery near Cotopaxi Hill
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Pioneer Cemetery near Cotopaxi Hill

Masvingo District, Masvingo, Zimbabwe – *No GPS coordinates

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This little Cemetery in an isolated setting overlooked by Cotapaxi Hill has seventeen grave sites of which only five have been identified by The Pioneers and Early Settlers Society.
It lies just three kilometres southwest of the original site of Fort Victoria which is on Clipsham Farm.

How to get here:
From Masvingo take the A4 south towards Beit Bridge, distances are measured from the Great Zimbabwe turnoff. 3.2 KM turn right onto a gravel road, 3.6 KM pass entrance to farm on right, 3.8 KM road take sharp turn to the right, 4.6 KM make sharp turn onto the road coming from the right, 5.2 KM pass entrance to farm on the right, turn right at very faded signpost for the pioneer cemetery.

GPS reference: 20⁰07′15.96″S 30⁰47′58.51″E

The Memorial plaque at the entrance to the Pioneer Cemetery reads:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
J.J. Rogers died 26-03-1892
C.McCantyre died 06-09-1892
Sgt Atwell died 06-09-1892
O. Phelps died 06-09-1892
J.S. Carnsew died 06-09-1892
AND TO TWELVE OTHER
PIONEERS WHO LIE BURIED HERE
PRO PATRIA
The grey iron crosses of the twelve unidentified victims just say AN UNKNOWN PIONEER DIED 1892 OR 1893.
This little Cemetery in an isolated setting overlooked by Cotapaxi Hill has seventeen grave sites of which only five have been identified by The Pioneers and Early Settlers Society.
It lies just three kilometres southwest of the original site of Fort Victoria which is on Clipsham Farm.

How to get here:
From Masvingo take the A4 south towards Beit Bridge, distances are measured from the Great Zimbabwe turnoff. 3.2 KM turn right onto a gravel road, 3.6 KM pass entrance to farm on right, 3.8 KM road take sharp turn to the right, 4.6 KM make sharp turn onto the road coming from the right, 5.2 KM pass entrance to farm on the right, turn right at very faded signpost for the pioneer cemetery.

GPS reference: 20⁰07′15.96″S 30⁰47′58.51″E

The Memorial plaque at the entrance to the Pioneer Cemetery reads:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
J.J. Rogers died 26-03-1892
C.McCantyre died 06-09-1892
Sgt Atwell died 06-09-1892
O. Phelps died 06-09-1892
J.S. Carnsew died 06-09-1892
AND TO TWELVE OTHER
PIONEERS WHO LIE BURIED HERE
PRO PATRIA
The grey iron crosses of the twelve unidentified victims just say AN UNKNOWN PIONEER DIED 1892 OR 1893.

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