Grandview Cemetery

Grandview Cemetery occupies about 90 acres of rolling hilltop southwest of Chillicothe, with views over the Scioto River Valley and toward Paint Creek. The first land was bought in 1845 at a public sale of estates, and the full acreage was assembled by the 1890s. Early deeds restricted structures, walls over four and one-half feet and monuments judged in poor taste. The grounds include a Civil War Union Veterans monument, a speaker's shelter, a cut-stone Gothic receiving vault, and mausoleums and crypts in Gothic, Greek, Romanesque and classical revival styles. The oldest part is the Renick Enclosure, walled in stone. Those buried here include Nathaniel Massie, founder of Chillicothe, and Ohio governors Edward Tiffin, Thomas Worthington, Duncan McArthur and William Allen. General Joshua Sill, archaeologist Edwin Davis, cartoonist Billy Ireland and paper scholar Dard Hunter are also interred. The property was listed for its associations with early Ohio leaders and for its monuments and landscape.