Cool Springs Cemetery, at the junction of Crestview and Woodviille Roads in Fairfield Township Sec 20, was a Quaker burial ground in its early years.
A burial ground was already established at the site when a log meeting house - The West Fairfield Friend's Meeting (Orthodox) was built at the Southeast corner of the intersection in 1808.
Graves of Quakers, simply marked with a common fieldstones, joined the earlier ones, and it is believed that around 300 burials were made in the southern triangle of present graveyard.
The meeting house, after 1828, was used also by the Hicksite friends - on alternate Sundays - and also served as a public meeting place for the people of the village of Cool Springs (later Unionville)_, especially for anti slavery gatherings. In the late 1850s, since many Quakers had moved westward and the log building had deteriorated, it was westward and the log building had deteriorated, it was replaced by a frame church built about 1835 which was moved from the Beilhard place on what is now Route 164.

On April 21, 1859, the three acres plot including the frame church and the burial ground was deeded by Samuel and Mahlon Erwin, son and grandson of James Erwin, the original settler for public use. (The committee named in the deed were Samuel Heaton, David Galbreath, and Samuel Neigh.)
The building became a Union church and the cemetery was labeled Union Cemetery on many maps. The church was used until early 1900s when it was moved from the location.
The cemetery eventually fell into disuse, and the field where the meeting house had been was farmed by a neighbor in exchange for care of the cemetery.
On Nov 27, 1941, a committee of friends and descendants of those buried there asked the Fairfield Two Trustees to take over the care of the cemetery and to establish its name as "Cool Springs Cemetery." Miss Mary Caldwell, great granddaughter of the original owner, James Erwin, had worked hard and long in the cause of restoring the cemetery, and a quitclaim deed from the church trustees finally paved the way for the township to assume care.
A neighborhood 40H Club, the "Fairfield Junio Farmers" under the leadership of Curney Converse and Ernest Call, cleaned out brush and briars in the 1950's and had continued through the years mowing, resetting gravestones, and leveling.
A Donation of Mary Caldwell's was a fence for the cemetery, and there is now a boulder at the front gate placed by Roy Crook on which the words "Cool Springs" are carved. The cemetery is laid out in salable lots in the northern part.
Cool Springs Cemetery is sometimes referred to as "Devil;'s Den," and folklore gives us several versions of the reason why.
One believable version centered on the fiery antislavery views of the founders. Another attributes it so the openness of the "union: idea for the church, which welcomed people of widely differing faiths, and which might have been distasteful to the more ridgid denominations. Whatever the source, the name was hated by those who had family ties in the origin of the church and had loved ones buried in the cemetery (notes from Beulah Bell Converse)
Source - A Historical Collection from Columbiana and Fairfield Township 1805-1975 by Heritage Committee of the Columbiana Bicentennial Commission Apr 1976 pg 66
(text by A. Rupert)



The cemetery is located in Fairfield Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, and is # 14511 (Cool Springs Cemetery / Devils Den Cemetery / Fairfield Friends Meeting House Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.

The cemetery is registered with the Ohio Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing (ODRE) as Cool Springs Cemetery with registration license number CGR.0000982716.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 1039337 (Cool Springs Cemetery).