Blackstone Cemetery (also known as Hills Creek Cemetery ) originally functioned as the cemetery of a Gold rush settlement. However, it is still in use, and its entrance gate functions as a War Memorial. Erected by Miss McKeeman, a plaque on the pediment lists seven solders killed in action 1914-1918 and eleven who have died since returning.
Blackstone Cemetery is located some 500 metres Hills along Creek Road just off Highway 85.
RELATED TO BLACKSTONE CEMETERY WAR MEMORIAL GATES
Events
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26 July 1863
Floods kill 25 miners in Central Otago
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28 April 1888
First British rugby team to play in NZ
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11 October 1861
First Cobb & Co. coach service runs to Otago goldfields
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23 March 1848
The John Wickliffe anchors at Port Chalmers
Biographies
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William Cargill
Community contributions