The cemetery dates back to around 1900. Sir John Jamison settled a cattle station, ‘Capita’, in the mid 1820s. He was joined by the Corlis and Gallagher families in the 1840s, who established sheep and wool farms. In the gold rush days of the 1850s, gold was found in the nearby Turon River and settlement began in the present village of Capertee around a good source of water nearby. The settlement was called the Capertee Camp, which fostered James Sherbey’s inn in 1870 and the Post Office in 1875. The old lock-up, which was built in 1897, can still be seen behind the present police station. The railway came in 1882; then a tent school was founded, replaced by a pre-fab building in 1883. The first hotel was burnt down twice, and the present hotel, built in the 1930s, was built with some of the sandstone from the second building, which was built around 1895. The hotel was previously a Cobb & Co stop, offering travellers to Mudgee rest and refreshment, and a change of horses for the coach.
