Mishawaka Historical Museum offering cemetery tour Aug. 10

MISHAWAKA, Ind. -- Those with a love for all things spooky will appreciate the Mishawaka Historical Museum's newest walking tour that will take participants through the nearly 200-year-old Mishawaka City Cemetery.

The tour will take place at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10. at the cemetery that was established on the southwest corner of Main and Jefferson in 1838. 

According to the historical museum, the cemetery is the final resting place of many of Mishawaka's most prominent settlers, businessmen, and their families.

"The walking tour, led by Mishawaka historian laureate Pete De Kever, will visit 20 graves and last approximately one hour and twenty minutes," organizers said. "Mishawaka City Cemetery is the final resting place for over 6,300 people, including many of the city’s prominent industrial and business leaders, pioneer families, and veterans of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II. Their history is the history of Mishawaka in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."

The tour is free, and no preregistration is required.