Flagstaff Gardens
Sloped hilltop park and former colonial burial ground, with tree-lined paths and a pioneer memorial.
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This guide to Flagstaff Gardens in Melbourne uncovers a colonial burial ground swallowed by the park, starting with a baby from the Goodman family buried on the hill in 1836 before Melbourne had a proper cemetery. It follows how a signal flagstaff and decades of picnickers arrived on the same ground, unaware they were walking over unmarked graves. For more than thirty years, the only marker over the settlers was a ramshackle picket fence around two dead wattle trees.
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