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Paradise Cemetery

North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia

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  • Get directions Campbells Creber Road, Paradise, Queensland, Australia
    North Burnett Region, Queensland Australia
    Coordinates: -25.34634, 151.92694
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The Paradise Cemetery is located in the north east of the former township of Paradise on approximately two hectares of partially cleared bushland bordering onto a farming property in the north and the road in the east. The site is slightly sloped and features native grasses, trees and shrubs of varying stages of maturity. There are a number of marked graves with a variety of surrounds, including galvanised roll-top mesh fencing, a metal pipe structure and wrought iron surrounds. Memorials feature headstones of varying shapes, materials and conditions, including a memorial plaque on a oblique concrete base. One grave site is covered with a concrete slab. The earliest inscription is from 16 March 1890 and the last burial is dated 5 October 1922. There are a total of twenty-eight burials recorded for the cemetery, including a number of children.

With a field very rich in gold, the gold mining town of Paradise was an entirely new settlement and once stretched for more than a kilometre along the southern bank of the Burnett River in Central Queensland. Founded in 1889 with a population of more 2000 at its peak it was abandoned by 1898 when yields declined rapidly and the town ceased to exist from the early twentieth century. Most of the buildings were removed to other settlements in the surrounding district.

The cemetery is all that remains of Paradise township.

The Paradise Cemetery is located in the north east of the former township of Paradise on approximately two hectares of partially cleared bushland bordering onto a farming property in the north and the road in the east. The site is slightly sloped and features native grasses, trees and shrubs of varying stages of maturity. There are a number of marked graves with a variety of surrounds, including galvanised roll-top mesh fencing, a metal pipe structure and wrought iron surrounds. Memorials feature headstones of varying shapes, materials and conditions, including a memorial plaque on a oblique concrete base. One grave site is covered with a concrete slab. The earliest inscription is from 16 March 1890 and the last burial is dated 5 October 1922. There are a total of twenty-eight burials recorded for the cemetery, including a number of children.

With a field very rich in gold, the gold mining town of Paradise was an entirely new settlement and once stretched for more than a kilometre along the southern bank of the Burnett River in Central Queensland. Founded in 1889 with a population of more 2000 at its peak it was abandoned by 1898 when yields declined rapidly and the town ceased to exist from the early twentieth century. Most of the buildings were removed to other settlements in the surrounding district.

The cemetery is all that remains of Paradise township.

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