Treasure

Burning Towers, Carlyle Cemetery

Date Published

14/11/2025

Nature of Treasure: Burning Tower
Keywords: burning towers, cemetery sections, Chinese, cemeteries / graves / headstones
Region: Riverina (NSW/VIC)
Place: Wahgunyah
Year: 1897

Two substantial burning towers at Carlyle cemetery, Wahgunyah.

Burning Towers, Carlyle Cemetery

Image Courtesy of: Indigo Shire Council

There were two burning towers erected in 1897 of which one original remains. In the 1970s, the other was re-erected by the Rutherglen Lions Club. Forty known Chinese are buried alongside these towers from 1881 to 1928. The existing memorial stones are footstones, not headstones.

Indigo Shire Council, Chinese Section

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