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Pennyweight Flat & Precinct
Colles Road, CASTLEMAINE VIC 3450 - Property No L10283
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Pennyweight Flat cemetery was established during the early years of the Mt Alexander alluvial
gold rush and some 200 burials took place between 1852 and 1857. Many of the burials were children and the cemetery was known for many years as a children's cemetery. However, the cemetery also contains the graves of both European and Chinese miners. The simple graves are partly built up with loose rock due to the stony ground and are informally placed among a stand of regrowth
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