Old Bethel Church and Cemetery

Sitting just to the left side of Park Rd. No. 1, the Old Bethel Methodist Cemetery was originally established by John Collins in 1805, a Methodist Episcopal preacher who settled in the Northwest Territory in 1802. Though the congregation was disbanded in 1968 when the United States Army Corps of Engineers purchased the church and surrounding land to make East Fork State Park, today the chapel remains as a historic site where the maternal grandparents of Ulysses S. Grant are buried alongside other members of their family.