An event happening tomorrow in Greene County will show-off one of the more beautiful and unique landmarks.

The Greene County Conservation Department and the North Raccoon River Watershed Association are teaming up for a prairie and cemetery walk Saturday. The walk will be through the Tipton Prairie and Pioneer Cemetery. Conservation Director Dan Towers says they purchased the three-acre prairie in 2002, and he talks about the history of the area.

“(The land has) never been plowed, it’s a virgin prairie. The family that owned it for years liked the prairie hay for their livestock. It lays in kind of an odd place, landlocked from their other fields, so it just remained as a prairie. There’s only about one-tenth of one-percent of the prairies that were here – when the settlers got here – that’s about all that’s left. Little isolated pieces like that.”

Towers says the nearby Pioneer Cemetery is an area that has not had more than 12 burials in the last 50 years. Towers notes this cemetery has not had one burial in the last 50 years and includes burial sites from the 1850s. He adds, this cemetery is one of ten Pioneer cemeteries in the county. 

Towers will lead the walking tour, and it begins at 2pm. Participants are asked to meet at the entrance, which Towers says is one mile west of the Raccoon River on County Road E-57. He says there will be signs to direct people where to go. The tour is free and open to the public.