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Heritage listing for Mackay General Cemetery
Mackay General Cemetery, established in 1865, has been honoured for its state heritage significance by entry in the Queensland Heritage Register.
Queensland Heritage Council Chair David Eades said the cemetery helped convey the history of one of Queensland’s oldest and largest sugar-producing regions, particularly its cultural and ethnic diversity.
“The cemetery contains the graves of people from a range of the ethnic groups employed by the local sugar industry, including South Sea Islanders, Javanese, Sri Lankans, Japanese, Maltese and Italians,” Mr Eades said.
“For some of these groups, the graves in this cemetery are the only remaining physical evidence of their presence in the Mackay region between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
“It was one of the earliest cemeteries established in the Mackay Whitsunday region, and although closed in the 1990s, it remains the largest in the region.
Mr Eades said the Mackay General Cemetery demonstrated the principal characteristics of a late 19th century public cemetery in continuous use for more than 140 years.
“From the 1870s, the cemetery was divided into sections according to religious denomination and included an alien section for non-Christian burials.
“The layout of graves in a grid divided by paths and roadways; the central carriageway lined by evergreen trees; and the variety of monuments illustrating a range of religious and cultural preferences is typical of that used in late Victorian cemeteries both in Australia and Britain.
“The progressive layering and the development and the diversity of styles in which people were memorialised within the cemetery demonstrate the changing attitudes to death and fashions in funerary ornamentation since the 1860s.”
Prior to its closure in the 1990s, about 15 500 people were buried in the Mackay General Cemetery, with the earliest documented burial occurring in July 1866.
The cemetery was nominated for entry in the Queensland Heritage Register following the Department of Environment and Resource Management’s statewide heritage survey in the Mackay Whitsundays region.
The Queensland Heritage Council is the state’s independent peak body and advisor on heritage matters and determines what places are entered in the Queensland Heritage Register.
Places that are entered in the Heritage Register are considered of importance to Queensland’s history and are protected under heritage legislation.