Photograph, Pleasant Creek Cemetery 1866

Historical information

Pleasant Creek Cemetery. Part of a collection of Photographs by Mr. O.G. Armstrong as commissioned by the Shire of Stawell for the Inter-colonial and Paris Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866.
The site of the Pleasant Creek Cemetery was proclaimed on October the 14th, 1861. Prior to that, a cemetery existed on ‘One Tree Hill’ where burials were made as early as 1854. A memorial is located on the site of the One Tree Hill Cemetery, corner of Griffith and Leslie streets, Stawell West.

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