In the 1840s pastoralists moved into the area and shepherds on Goomburra Run built huts at the base of Allora Mountain where it was easiest to cross the Dalrymple Creek.

During the 1860s as Allora became a service centre to the surrounding black soil farms the town acquired a police station, post office, national school, cemetery and courthouse.

Allora continued to develop as the administration and service centre for the township and local wheat and dairy farmers.

However, the oldest extant headstone is that of Clifton Station manager Charles Henry Bullock, who was buried in the Church of England section in 1867.

[1] An area of 16 acres (6.5 ha) 1 rood (11,000 sq ft; 1,000 m2) 15 perches (380 m2) was surveyed for a Cemetery Reserve at Allora in October 1879, but it was not gazetted until 1893.

Also the amount of £150 was to be invested by the Allora General Cemetery trustees to provide income for the shelter-shed's maintenance for 50 years.

[1] William Mitchner, born on 2 August 1841 in Germany, arrived in Allora about 1872 where he gained employment as a fireman or engineer in fellow German Francis Kates' flourmill.

However, it is thought that Charles Astley created the Allora Mitchner bust and Petries Stonemasons were involved with the Warwick sculpture.

Alexander Cameron (1840–1882) was the first Allora Municipal Council clerk from 1860 to his death and in appreciation his fellow townsmen erected a small obelisk over his grave.

A cortege of 50 buggies and 200 horsemen met the train at Hendon to escort the coffin back to Allora and his parishioners later erected an 18-foot (5.5 m) high obelisk on a massive pedestal.

[1] Irish born Samuel Gordon (1822–1902) became a Goomburra Station shepherd in 1858 and for a few years lived in a hut where Allora now stands.

Mrs Deacon was active in Methodist Church affairs and wrote under the pen name of Patience Brown while William is better remembered as a successful businessman who served 39 years on the local Council.

Bookkeeper George Shooter (1861–1942) and his wife Leila (1869–1955) worked on various stations before moving to the district as share farmers.

Brelsford, a plumber by trade, collected historical information and using pen and ink sketched many of the districts heritage places and he was responsible for two books Land of the Leslies and Sandstone and cedar.

Pepperinas along the Allora-Clayton Road cyclone wire fence define the western boundary, as does a wet weather creek on the southern side.

[1] This cemetery has the usual grid of roads and paths with signposts delineating each denominational section of the monumental burial ground.

A central driveway is lined by evergreen cypress like trees and at the northern end a road separates the lawn cemetery from the Methodist and Catholic monumental sections.

The corrugated iron roof rises to a square timber steeple capped by a domed mushroom and finial.

[1] The internal rear wall has a marble plaque stating that William Mitchner gave the shelter as a gift for the benefit of the public and that he was born 2 August 1841 and died 1 June 1918.

[1] Inscriptions on memorials reveal that many of the early settlers came from England, Scotland, Ireland and a few from Wales and Germany and other European countries.

There are monuments and family grave plots pertaining to pioneers, immigrants and locally born, ministers, bank managers, teachers, publicans, builders, farmers and benefactors to the community.

Allora Cemetery is important in demonstrating the evolution of Queensland history in that it provides evidence of the occupations, social status and demography of the Warwick district, particularly displaying the diversity since the 1860s of the town's cultural, religious and ethnic groups.

Allora Cemetery survives as a good example of its type, with a variety of headstones and monuments illustrating changing public attitudes to commemoration of the dead.

While monuments and headstones vary in size, quality and condition they reflect the social, religious and architectural history of Allora from the 1860s to the 21st century.

[1] The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland's history.