OLDEST - St Michael's Cemetery - Hahndorf - SA - Australia
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S 35° 01.676 E 138° 48.672
54H E 300319 N 6121668
Oldest Christian burial ground in the Adelaide Hills
Waymark Code: WMX9PQ
Location: South Australia, Australia
Date Posted: 12/13/2017
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St Michael's Cemetery
In the early days members of the congregation who died were buried in the church cemetery in the church grounds. This arrangement continued until 1885 when the cemetery was permanently closed due to an outbreak of typhoid fever. A new cemetery was opened just out of the town. In the 1950's the congregation levelled most of the area which forms the present car park and placed the names of those known to be buried in the church cemetery on bronze plaques which were fixed to the new memorial arch in 1959. A few graves in relatively good condition were preserved, the earliest date on a tombstone being 1796.
Type of documentation of superlative status: Sign
Location of coordinates: in the cemetery
Web Site: Not listed
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