While searching on Find A Grave I found an article about the Old Greencastle Cemetery in Harrison Twp and found the following information very troubling: "The unwillingness of the city of Dayton to intercede in its maintenance of Old Greencastle Cemetery insures that conditions will only worsen at what is a sacred and historical site and which deserves to be protected." Were any of you aware that this cemetery, probably Dayton's oldest cemetery, is not being cared for? What a disgrace for the civic leaders that the cemetery hasn't been named an historic site and then the city government would be obligated to care for it and preserve it. Jo Kester (The full text) Old Greencastle Cemetery Dayton Montgomery County Ohio USA Old Greencastle Cemetery is thought to be Dayton's oldest, with interments dating back to 1839. (Its name comes from the "Greencastle circuit," the circuit of the United Brethren church to which the church located on the east side of the cemetery originally belonged.) The cemetery lies at the corner of South Broadway and Miami Chapel Road, near the former United Brethren-Miami Chapel Church, in the Edgemont neighborhood of Dayton. This cemetery is no longer active and is not to be confused with "New" Greencastle Cemetery on Nicholas Road. This second, currently active cemetery was established in 1942 as available burial space at the original cemetery site dwindled. Old Greencastle has suffered greatly over the decades as a result of the decline of the surrounding neighborhood. Things worsened during the mid-1990's as the cemetery's perpetual care fund ran out; lack of money for upkeep of the cemetery has led to a general condition of disrepair. The unwillingness of the city of Dayton to intercede in its maintenance insures that conditions will only worsen at what is a sacred and historical site and which deserves to be protected. Many older cemetery records were lost as a result of the Great Dayton Flood of 1913. The surviving records for Old Greencastle Cemetery are housed at the Special Collections and Archives section of the Dunbar Library at Wright State University in Fairborn, OH.