Kingston-on-Murray
Cemetery
This is a small cemetery which looks down
on the River Murray and the township of
Kingston-on-Murray.
The Australian Cemetries website has details (as at
2007) of those that are buried at the cemetery.
European settlement of the district first
occurred when Thomas Wigley established a homestead in 1851. The
property was probably called 'Thurk' from an Aboriginal word
meaning mouth (the River Murray enters the mouth of a gorge
nearby).
The settlement of Kingston was established
March 1894 as a village settlement under the South Australian
government's scheme to settle unemployed people from Adelaide in
co-operative communities.
It was named after Charles Cameron
Kingston, premier of South Australia from 1893 to 1899.
In 1918, the settlement was officially
re-named Thurk, after Wigley's station. Most people continued to
call it Kingston, however, and because South Australia already had
a town named Kingston, it was changed to Kingston-on-Murray in
1940.
After the First World War land in the
Kingston area was settled by returned soldiers under the South
Australian governments soldier settlement scheme.
The Cache
The cache container is a 220ml sistema
container. There is only room for the log book, pencil for you to
record your find and possibly one or two small swap items. If you
carry a pencil sharperner, you might like to sharpen the pencil for
the next logger.