Blandford Church and Cemetery

The brick church on Well’s Hill, now known as Old Blandford Church, was built between 1734 and 1737, the British General Phillips was buried in the churchyard in 1781. In the cemetery is a monument to Captain McRae and the Petersburg Volunteers, who at Fort Meigs in 1813 won for Petersburg the name of the Cockade City of the Union. Soldiers of six wars rest here, among them 30,000 Confederates.