Rieff's Chapel Cemetery began in the 1840s with the founding of a pioneer community named after John Rieff, an early settler and farmer who arrived in 1838. The first known burial was Mary Alexander Rieff, John Rieff's daughter-in-law, on October 19, 1845. The cemetery is bordered on three sides by a rock wall shown in property records from the mid-1890s. A windswept pine once stood in the center, and after it fell, Ed and Eugene Kelly, who lived in the Rieff's Chapel community, planted five maple trees in honor of their sisters, with four at the corners and one in the center. Buried here are John Rieff, Philip Kessler, and other notable pioneers. There are about 130 unmarked graves, including an infants' section suggested by the small spaces between stones and the presence of only one marked grave among them labeled “Martha's Child.” Several families had slaves working the farms, and it is possible they were buried here. Rieff's Chapel, about 200 yards northeast and downhill from the cemetery, also served as a one-room schoolhouse. The white frame building measured 860 square feet, and students through grade eight sat in thirteen double desks. The first known school record dates to 1869, when John Rieff donated one acre to school district No.12. The school consolidated with Greenland in 1931, but continued services and Sunday School for all ages for many years afterward. In 1941, it became private property, and today only the foundation stones and wellhead remain.