Arthur Street Cemetery

It is situated on the City Rise, on the corner of Arthur Street and Rattray Street, on the slopes overlooking the city's centre, which lies 500 metres to the east.

The first burial at the site was of surveyor's labourer James Campbell, buried on 29 October 1846, over a year before the settlement of Dunedin was founded in 1848.

[2] The cemetery served the young settlement until the early 1860s, when the rapid expansion of Dunedin due to the Otago gold rush made its location inconvenient.

The location of the cemetery is marked by an obelisk, erected in 1880, which is modelled on London's Cleopatra's Needle.

The site has been used for several purposes since the cemetery closed, notably a military barracks during the 1860s, a meteorological station, and a lunatic asylum.