The Ground the Gist Settlement Set Apart | Lot 31, Highland County, Ohio

A Field Notes walk through Lot 31, the cemetery the Gist Settlement set apart in Penn Township, Highland County, Ohio; made in Ohio in September 2026. Start Your Grave Survey: https://www.thegraveguy.com/grave-survey CHAPTERS 0:00 The back of the marker 0:25 Thirty-one lots 1:03 As the state tells it 1:44 The county's own record 2:23 Lot 31 today 2:48 One cemetery, four numbers 4:05 The names and the ground RECORDS SHOWN Ohio Historical Society, Ohio Bicentennial Commission and The P & G Fund · Ohio Historical Marker 5-36, "Gist Settlement," sides one and two · Gist Settlement Road, Penn Township, Highland County, Ohio · placed 2003 Highland County Recorder · Plat Book 1, pp. 452–453 · plat of the "Gest Settlement lands," dated December 1894, transcribed 1905 SOURCE FOR THE CEMETERY COUNTS Jarrod Burks, with contributions by Stephen Biehl, "The Highland County Gist Settlement (33Hi417): Archaeological Investigation into the Results of Manumission at a Settlement of Freedmen in Southern Ohio," Ohio Valley Archaeology, Inc., Contract Report No. 2014-3 (March 2016), chapter 6 and appendices G–H. READ MORE https://www.thegraveguy.com/blog/lot-... https://www.thegraveguy.com/blog/thre... On Saturday, October 24, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., Gist Settlement Legacy hosts an evening of live storytelling at the cemetery, 6380 Gist Settlement Road, New Vienna. Details: https://www.gistsettlementlegacy.com The Grave Guy™ is a registered trade name of Buckeye Genealogy & Research, LLC. #HighlandCounty #OhioHistory