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Manuherikia Junction Cemetery

Memorials	:	3
Location	:	Alexandra, Central Otago District, New Zealand
Coordinate	:	-45.2614850, 169.3977150
Description	:	The old cemetery is located across the ManuherikiaRiver from the Alexandra township. Access is from the Little Valley Road which runs beside the Otago Central Rail Trail. Take the first turn to the right after crossing the old railway bridge. Or you can take a walk to the cemetery via the Shaky bridge. All access is sign-posted. Local history tells us that rocks were used to encircle the burial mounds and that only a few of the graves had headstones erected (probably better to be referred to as headboards as they were made of wood. Erecting of headstones in this time... Read More	The old cemetery is located across the ManuherikiaRiver from the Alexandra township. Access is from the Little Valley Road which runs beside the Otago Central Rail Trail. Take the first turn to the right after crossing the old railway bridge. Or you can take a walk to the cemetery via the Shaky bridge. All access is sign-posted. Local history tells us that rocks were used to encircle the burial mounds and that only a few of the graves had headstones erected (probably better to be referred to as headboards as they were made of wood. Erecting of headstones in this time period was too difficult in this cemetery due to its location). Although it was close to some of the mining encampments which had sprung up along the river banks it was on the other side of the river to the actual township of Alexandra and funeral parties had to use punts to cross the river. The cemetery was only open from 1863 to approximately 1868 and the first permanent bridge (what is now the ShakyBridge) across the river was not in use until 1879. It has always been believed that the closure of the Manuherikia cemetery was in 1868 as the new cemetery on the Alexandra Flats (the present cemetery) opened in this year (A newspaper report of the death of a two year old boy, the son of Robert Finlay (first Mayor of Alexandra in 1867) on the 5 April 1868 indicates his body was to be interred in the New Cemetery at Alexandra and is believed to one of the first burials there). After the last burials and due to it location being difficult to access and very few loved ones around to tend the graves, the Manuherikia Junction cemetery fell into disrepair. In 1898 some restoration work on the cemetery was carried out and on 3 August 1898 the Vincent County Council made an application to the Department of Lands and Deeds for the ground to be proclaimed a Cemetery Reserve – 35 years after the first burial and 30 years after the cemetery closed.

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Manuherikia Junction Cemetery is located at Graveyard Gully Road Alexandra, Central Otago District ,Otago , 9320New Zealand.
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Latitude: -45.2614850
Longitude: 169.3977150

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