The Harmonist Cemetery October 7, 2008

During the ten years the Harmonists were at Harmony, 100 members of the Society were buried in the commune's cemetery just east of town. The Society did not mark the graves of its dead. A memorial to George Rapp's son, Johannes, who died in Harmony, was created by non-Harmonists. The Harmony Society contracted with Mennonite Stoneworkers in 1869 to construct the cemetery wall and its unique one-ton rotating gate.