Showing another (on west side) entrance with flowers I've planted and stones I've added beside them.

Photo taken Sept. 2005 by Gary W. Royer

Summer 2008

Some of the many gravestones that were sunken below ground until I found and raised about 35 of them from July-November 2005.

Photo taken 12/30/05

This beautiful "broken stone" fence is 880 feet long and surrounds the cemetery's 1.62 acres. This photo is looking Northeast at the cemetery and River St.

Photo Taken 11/16/2005 by Gary W. Royer

Broken grave markers at Pioneer Memorial Obelisk.

Photo Taken 11/16/2005 by Gary W. Royer

"This ancient burial ground of Central Ohio was established in a bend of the Scioto River in 1799 and is known as "Old Franklinton Cemetery". The pioneers buried here are about one hundred in number. Seventy-one graves are marked largely by sandstone slabs, many having elaborately carved drawings and quaint inscriptions. Here also is buried at least one soldier of the American Revolution, Reverend Seth Noble, first minister of the frontier town. In 1811 the first church in the community, Presbyterian, was erected by Lucas Sullivant, the founder of Franklinton, upon the present burial grounds. Sullivant himself was buried here in 1824, but his remains were moved to Green Lawn Cemetery years later. In 1931 the West Side Board of Trade erected a granite obelisk monument in the center of the cemetery, twenty-six feet in height. The memorial contains two commemorative tablets, one of which reads "In this Churchyard Stood the First Church of the Community - Built and Presented to the Congregation by Lucas Sullivant in 1811.The strange, unknown people who built the ancient mounds and works near here knew the attractions and worth of this favored Scioto Valley."...... NOTE: Old Franklinton Cemetery Historical Marker Sign. Paid for equally by G.F.S Chemicles & the Franklinton Historical Society at a total cost of $3000 and placed in July 2005.

Adopt-An-Area Sign placed at the Old Franklinton Cemetery 02/02/06 by the City of Columbus, Ohio Keep Columbus Beautiful Program in recognition of my hundreds of hours of Volunteer service in carring for the cemetery.

Photo taken 02/03/06

revolutionary war graves

I placed a wreath to remember all of the pioneers who settled here. They were visionaires or at least had a sense of adventure, setting out to build a new settlement, that became Columbus.

Some history and a survey of the site, full of great information.

1980 Preston Reichard Collection (from digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org)

1980 Preston Reichard Collection (from digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org)