Local Legends and Myths Tour

Visit the burial sites of famous Lancaster citizens in historic Elmwood Cemetery, and enjoy reenactments of some of the most significant events in the lives of these early residents. Members of the Fairfield Heritage Association lead the tour and take you back into history, as you visit the burial sites of Kentuckians Joseph and Dorothy Hunter, Lancaster's first white settlers in 1798, and the parents of Hocking Hunter, the first white child born in Lancaster; Henry Giesy, Commander of the 17th Ohio Regiment and later a General in the Civil War; Frances Stanbery, wife of Henry Stanbery, a member of the Constitutional Convention and Attorney General of the United States under President Andrew Johnson; Charles Sherman, father of William and John; Darius Tallmadge, the Ohio Stagecoach King and early railroad pioneer; and Scott James, Civil War soldier, first black to serve on a Lancaster jury, and the first black police officer on the Lancaster Police Department.

Square 13 Historic District Tour, Anytime

Local Legends and Myths Tour, Elmwood Cemetery, fourth Friday in October

Christmas Tour of Heritage Churches, second Saturday of December

Pilgrimage Tour of Homes, first weekend of May