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Burial Hill - the White Hat guideBurial Hill (now part of the Flagstaff Gardens) was the first burial place for white settlers in Melbourne. We have a description of the first burial there from the journal of John Pascoe Fawkner. Garryowen also describes the early history of Burial Hill: "The eminence north-westward of the township of Melbourne, and then away in the country, which was afterwards used as a signal station for shipping, was first named 'Burial Hill' by the European settlers. In after times if was favourably known as Flagstaff Hill, for it was most popular and pleasant recreation ground for the inhabitants. Here upon the green hillside was inhumed the first white corpse - the remains of Willie, the child of James Goodman, who was buried there on the 13th May, 1836 - the first of the new colonists who found an early and final resting place in a Melbourne cemetery." No sign of the original graves remain, but there is a memorial erected on the hill which reads: ERECTED
to the
MEMORY OF
SOME of the EARLIEST of
The Pioneers of this COLONY
Whose REMAINS were INTERRED
NEAR this SPOT |
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TOURISM NEWS
Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses
White Hat
Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May
There are many fine historical tours
throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the
prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour
of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May
2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and
will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown
on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won
praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy
tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed,
Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find
details of the tour at White
Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at
Qantas In Flight Magazine. |
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