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The Chinese Cemetery - located on the junction of Copper Mine creek and Anabranch is the resting-place of many Chinese gold miners who worked in the Cloncurry District at the turn of the last century.

The Cloncurry Cemetery - located on Sir Hudson Fysh Drive where graves date back to the 1880's.  It is the resting place of Cloncurry's first schoolteacher, Mary Allen who died on the 12th February 1899, from heat exhaustion while travelling between the Gorge and Cloncurry and two miners who were killed in July 1907 from an accident at the Great Australia Mine.  Dame Mary Gilmore D.B.E, who is featured on the ten-dollar note, also rests in our old cemetery.  After her death in Sydney in 1962, Dame Mary was accorded a state funeral from St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church in Macquarie St and her ashes were interred in the grave of her husband.

The Afghan Cemetery - North West corner of the Cloncurry Cemetery has many graves of Afghan camel train drivers and a Mohammedan Priest (Syid OMar).  All graves face north - south toward Mecca.  These graves date from around the turn of the century to the 1950's.  Cloncurry was Queenslands largest "Ghantown' in the late 1890's and early 1900's.  It was estimated that there were more than 200 Afghan Cameleers and 2000 camels providing transport in the Cloncurry District.

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