THE 160th anniversary of Eureka will be marked with tours of the Ballarat Old Cemetery and the Eureka Graves Ceremony on Saturday.
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Many of the gold diggers and soldiers, as well as other significant people during the time of the Eureka Stockade, are buried at the cemetery.
Ballarat and District Genealogical Society treasurer Neva Dunstan will be one of the society’s members taking the tours.
She said the group last held tours of the cemetery on the 150th anniversary and only did it on significant occasions.
“We’ll visit the Eureka graves and other graves from the time of Eureka, including businessmen, a musician, some ministers of religion and government employees,” she said.
One of the graves on the tour is that of James Russell Thomson, a juror from the inquest into James Scobie’s death and who bequeathed the Flight of Pompeii statue to the Ballarat gardens.
The graves ceremony remembers those who died during the Eureka Stockade, incorporating the 40th of Foot Regiment re-enactment group.
AT A GLANCE
WHAT: Eureka tours of the old cemetery
WHERE: Ballarat Old Cemetery, Macarthur Street
WHEN: Saturday, December 6, 1pm and 2pm
WHAT: Eureka Graves Ceremony
WHERE: Ballarat Old Cemetery
WHEN: Saturday, December 6, noon, Macarthur Street
