Moonta Cemetery

{{Short description|Cemetery in Moonta, South Australia}}

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| name = Moonta Cemetery

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| established = 1867

| country = Australia

| location = 5 Tank Road, Moonta, South Australia

| coordinates = {{coord|-34.075034|137.585581|type:landmark_region:AU-SA|display=inline,title}}

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| owner = District Council of the Copper Coast

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[https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/13789/moonta-cemetery/ Moonta Cemetery] – CWGC

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The Moonta Cemetery in Moonta, South Australia was established under the Moonta Cemetery Trust in May 1866. Burials had occurred prior to that, with the town having been surveyed and land sold in March 1863. Plans for the cemetery were made in 1867 with walls erected between 1871 and 1876, the front gates made by J. H. Horwood and Co. of Adelaide. J. H. Horwood and Co. also cast the copper bell installed in 1896.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article216332065 |title=New Bell for the Cemetery |newspaper=Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser |volume=XXIV |issue=1940 |location=South Australia |date=4 September 1896 |access-date=29 September 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article216337135 |title=Improvements at the Moonta Cemetery |newspaper=Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser |volume=XXVII |issue=2086 |location=South Australia |date=30 June 1899 |access-date=29 September 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The Moonta Cemetery, including wall, gates and waiting room were included in the South Australian Heritage Register on 28 November 1985.[http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=13506 Heritage Places Database Search: Moonta cemetery] It is now managed by the District Council of the Copper Coast.{{cite web | url=http://www.coppercoast.sa.gov.au/page.aspx?u=1656 | title=Cemeteries | publisher=District Council of the Copper Coast | access-date=29 January 2017}}