BEECHWORTH CEMETERY - Victoria 2021
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Beechworth Cemetery was surveyed in February 1854 by the Government Surveyor under the supervision of James Ingram, and divided into rectangular denominational compartments. In I856 a Cemetery Trust was formed and the cemetery was in operation in January the same year. The site was first gazetted as a public cemetery on 4 November 1861.
With the discovery of Gold at Spring Creek below the gorge in February 1852, Beechworth (then surveyed as Mayday Hills) was subjected to a massive influx of gold seekers eager to make their fortune at this very rich goldfield. Within eleven months of this discovery, over 8000 diggers, many from overseas, had descended on the new find. Life and conditions on the diggings was primitive to say the least. The lack of basic conveniences and sanitation led to an outbreak of typhoid. Among the early deaths was the first Doctor to arrive in Beechworth, Dr Henry Green who died four months after his arrival, a victim of typhoid fever. Between 1853 and 1860, an average of one child per week died of disease including measles, scarlet fever, dysentery, diphtheria and typhoid.
Chinese Burning TowersThe first burial site was in lower Stanley Road. The First official cemetery was in Loch Street from 1853 to 1855. Many of the bodies were later exhumed and reburied in the “Pioneer Section” of the present cemetery which opened in 1856. (More detail of the reburials can be found within the Tours of Historical Graves at Beechworth Cemetery). Of particular historical significance is the Chinese Section of the cemetery. Here some 2000 Chinese gold seekers and settlers are buried. The Chinese Burning Towers (1857) were used for burning paper prayers and meals were provided on the altar (1883) for the spirits of the dead. A memorial in recognition and remembrance of the Chinese contribution to society in Australia was erected in the Chinese Section by the Non Pon Soon Society, Non Pon Soon Club and The Victorian Chinese Memorial Foundation Inc. in 2010.
The ornate iron gates and Beechworth granite entrance pillars were erected in 1888. The lawn section of the cemetery, opposite the main cemetery in Balaclava Road was opened in April 1999. The cemetery which has operated since 1856, has recently received registration with the Heritage Council - Victoria for its significance as a Goldfields Cemetery. Its an important collection of old plants, a burial site for 2000 Chinese and settlers, and rare Chinese Burning Towers and Altar. The cemetery won the Indigo Shire Heritage Award in 2012 for its ongoing management of the cemetery.
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I love visiting old cemeteries. They are wonderful pieces of history. Thank you!
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed Cindy, thank you for joining us on this walk. Hope you have a great day.
Very nice sharing 👍🏼 beautiful and peaceful place 👍🏼
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Scarlett, have a great weekend. Glad you enjoyed this video 😘
Hi 🙋♂️ thank you 🙏 for great 👍 music 🎵 movie 🎥 cemetery tour and gold mining ⛏ story
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching. Glad you enjoyed my friend.
The history tells about the importance of family memories Beautiful and well preserved cemetary keep sharing stay connected
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for visiting and watching our adventure. Glad you enjoyed our video Nardz. Have a great day.
Interesting history 👍
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you think so, we did. Thank you for watching. Have a great week.
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@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you do much, glad you enjoyed the video. Welcome back.
Buen video me gusta . Felicitaciones saludos nos vemos
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Have a great day.
Spettacolari! Pollice alto!
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Graize Mille. Buona Settimana. 😘
Thats a wonderful old cemetery, it must have been tough to raise a family back then, we have much to be grateful for. Loved all he history, thanks for sharing. 👍
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it John. Life was certainly tough in those early days. Thank you for watching. Have a great day.🙏🏽 🤗
I love the definition of a cemetery. Great production guys. Colorado M
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏🏽 glad you enjoyed and welcome to our channel.
Another interesting video, as always we enjoyed watching & hearing all the information 👍🥰 Hope your both having a lovely week, stay safe & Take Care 😍🤩xx
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Paul. 🤗 Glad you enjoyed the tour of this cemetery. Thank you for joining us. Have a great day.🙏🏽 🤗
Wonderful history lesson found in this peaceful but sad place. Thanks for sharing
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome Leah, glad you enjoyed our walk through this Cemetery. Have a great day.
Thanks for sharing the walk around the cemetery. Thanks for all the history and information that you provide. Have a wonderful day! 😀👍
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Wade. Thank you for watching, have a great week. 🙏🏽 🤗
Pretty cool cemetery and historical information. It is amazing that so many people and/or babies died of common ailments that can easily be treated today. Hats off to modern medicine. Have a great day, Jojo and Peter.
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank Steve, glad you enjoyed the tour of this interesting place. Have a great day and thank you for dropping by.
Thank you Joe for an historical snapshop of the Beechworth Cemetery. Sad places full of so many stories.
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I agree, especially for the early pioneers. Glad you enjoyed watching this episode. Thank you xo
Víctoria 2021 beautiful❤🥰 hello
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, glad you enjoyed. Thank you for watching. Have a great day.
You know something about cemetaries? No one ever complains about being in one and no one complains about who their neighbors are. Thums up!
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Love it 😍 I will remember that line next time I visit a cemetery and say BrendaG told me. 😘
What a great upload you have here👌👌Great share !!.You must have a great week LIKE 👌👌👍👍👍👍@ 32
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the visit and glad you enjoyed the walk around the cemetery.
Such a very old cemetery and it's very impressive that it's still operating these days. It's just fitting this cemetery received a heritage award in 2012.
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
It was an interesting place to visit and it is well kept because of its importance of history to the township. Thank you for dropping by and watching.
Thanks for taking us along Jojo and Peter, kind of a sad, peaceful and very interesting history walk, nicely done, cheers Steve :)
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Steve. It wasn't as eerie as walking around the Beechworth Asylum. Have a great week.
Nice ❤❤❤❤ Lovely video ❤❤ I love it ❤❤❤❤ Stay connected and stay safe
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for visiting. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Class location really cool my friend it's a fascinating place with stories
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed Colwyn, thank you for dropping by and watching. Have a great week.
Love the history lessons that come with your movies Jojo. Exploring neat places is nice, but the context added makes it all the more interesting. Thanks for sharing!
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoy it and thank you for watching. Have a great day and see you on our next adventure.
Biutiful like 👍👍👍
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much.
What an amazing cemetery with such a sad and solemn history. Thank you for sharing it with us.
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed the walk around the cemetery. Thank you for watching. Have a great week.
Hello Joe and Peter, thanks for taking me on a tour I haven't done, something I've done in other towns but not Beechworth, great video guys thanks for sharing ATB Jim.
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Jim, I have done this walk about 4 times, well worth doing. Maybe its time for a trip to Beechworth. It is a great country town. Have a great week Jim. Cheers Joseph
It's just perfeeect friend😍💜 love it
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Glad our enjoyed our walk around this cemetery. Have a great day. 🤗 🙏🏽
The "This is a Cemetery" plaque that was read at the beginning of this one was so moving. I loved hearing that. Very cool site with great history. We enjoyed learning about the Chinese burning towers. Thanks for taking us along to Beechworth Cemetery!
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. We loved that plaque. Those burning towers are pretty cool. Have a great day and thank you once again for dropping by and watching an episode.
Thanks for the history 😉😉
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
you're welcome David, thank you for your support. Much appreciated. Have a great week.
this was fascinating, so much history and so many stories come from cemetery's, its also a nice place to pay your respects to the past. this was done so well jojo, so close to 1000!!!
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Hello Kali, glad you enjoyed the walk around the cemetery. Quite an interesting place. Very close to the 1k, very exciting. Have a great week and look forward to your next instalment.
Just stunning as always! I love old graveyards! I am catching up on about 5 of your videos today if you get tired of seeing my comments. I am down sick in bed so your wonderful videos are cheering me up!
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear Kathy, ugh 🤦 I hat feeling sick 🤢 But on the bright side it is a good way on catching up on video’s. I do hope you are feeling better soon 👍🏽🙏🏽🤗 No, I would never get tired of seeing your comments, they are always welcomed 🙏🏽
Incredible video. This actually chilled me. Great job gentlemen. Really nice. Thank you for sharing this.
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it, thought it might have interested you after seeing your cemetery walk. Have a great day.
I always love a walk around a graveyard this one has so much history. Wow 2000 Chinese buried. Thanks as always 😃
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Raymond. It is quite an interesting place to visit. Have a great day and thank you for watching.
nice video..the historical location of the old grave place..thank you for the info you shared ..
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Amank. Thank you for watching.
I enjoyed hearing the "This is a Cemetery", it speaks to the truth! Enjoyed the tour and learning some history from you guys as always!
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching Beck and glad you enjoyed this cemetery. Yes, we loved that plaque too. Have a great weekend.
What a beautiful video, so much history!
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Daz. Have a great day Buddy.
Great job guys! I love the plaque - thanks for sharing that.
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching Ralph. Glad you enjoyed the walk around the cemetery. Have a great week.
Thanks for the great video my friends
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you John. Much appreciated 👍🏽🤗
It looks like a beautiful place. My old neighbor would always say when passing a cemetery "That's the last place I want to go!" Have a wonderful day.
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Oh wow! Where did your neighbour wish to go? Or is her choice to be cremated and to be scattered like myself, blown to the wind. Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for stopping by and watching. Have a great week.
@Dagonhills
3 жыл бұрын
@@CowboyJojosAdventuresHe was just a joker, he did end up going there. I want to be ashes too, for me a casket seems like a waste of wood!
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
@@Dagonhills I’m with you on that one ☝️
Hello guys. Thanks for sharing the history here. These two towers look interesting btw.
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
G’day Pavel. Your welcome 🙏🏽 Yes these ceremonial towers are amazing. I have never seen anything else in Australia like them. Have a great week. Waiting on your next adventure.
Fantastic video my Friends , very intetesting to see this Historic cemetery . I am Fine just very very busy still have few Family issues to attend to taking care of someone special...be back soon ..Best wishes to you all David
@nailezoupani
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Dave trust you are well. cheers!
@CommunityToursAustralia
3 жыл бұрын
@@nailezoupani Ello Dear Naile ! So lovely to hear from You always I'm good but Flat out running around doing things Taking care of Mom she wasn't the best for the last year and always something new surprising us regarding her health she just turned 90 ..I'm a full carer now for her ..I crave for a good Holiday and some time off ..I took some time to film the Anzac parade few weeks ago but I can't really leave to far or longer recently it's been busy..hope you and family are good send my wishes to your mom also David xoxo
@nailezoupani
3 жыл бұрын
@@CommunityToursAustralia I’m also a full time carer for my mum too Dave. It’s been a crazy year and we are all tiring our best. Keep safe I will check out your video. I just posted one last week hope you can visit. All the best😀
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
Welcome back and thank you David. I hope the person you are caring for gets well soon. Best wishes to you all David and look forward to you getting back to what you enjoy doing. Cheers Joseph
@CommunityToursAustralia
3 жыл бұрын
@@CowboyJojosAdventures Thankyou again my Friends
Glad I’m not the only one doing cemetery videos. Melissa was asking why you seemed so sad, I said you were somber since it was a Cemetery. Really cool history regarding those fire pillars. You guys beat us to 🍎 picking 😂
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
You got it Carl. Glad you enjoyed this walk around the dead ☠️ 😂 Yes those towers are amazing. Thank you for watching another of our adventures. Hope you are having a great day 🙏🏽👍🏽
Nice cemetery with interesting history. We have some old ones around here...I might make a video or two?
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
You should, people find them fascinating Toby. Glad you enjoyed the adventure. Have a great day.
A very large cemetery.
@CowboyJojosAdventures
3 жыл бұрын
There are bigger. 😂 Thank you for dropping by Senior 👍🏽🤗🤗