Gobur Cemetery is nestled in the hills of the beautiful Gobur valley, peacefully guarding the heritage of past miners and early settlers.
The cemetery once overlooked a thriving mining town, originally known as Godfreys Creek, but now encompasses views of the creek, hills and valleys of the farms of the settlers who followed. Ringed by 100-year-old pinus radiata genus only found in a few places today, the annual Australian wildflower displays in spring, are encouraged by cool burns.
For the past 152 years Gobur Cemetery Trust has recorded its history, registered interments and committed to maintaining the cemetery in perpetuity, with an average of around eight to ten trustees, who willingly volunteer their labour and expertise.
Divided by a central driveway into two sections, the Northern and Southern sections, the cemetery offers burial sites, and ashes interment in two Memorial Niche Walls.
The historic tool shed, erected on 4 September 1900 and renovated in 2009 still stands on the original site today, and many pioneer headstones, the earliest survivor dating back to 1879, stand on the hill as sentinel to Gobur’s past heritage.