Established in 1898, it is the location of over 40,000 burials and 60,000 cremations, including of several murderers and dozens of other notable Australians, and is the final resting place of AC/DC singer Bon Scott.

The Skinner Street cemetery is now the location of the John Curtin College of the Arts oval, where it is estimated some 800 bodies still remain.

[4] For its first sixty years, the cemetery was dedicated to burials but in 1959 a crematorium was opened which allows an alternative to those who preferred cremations.

[4] Situated on the corner of Carrington Street and Leach Highway,[1] many of the cemetery buildings use limestone which reflects the area's convict-built architecture.

The first grave on the trail is that of Saverio Pensabene, a local fisherman who had his boat sequestered during World War II because he was Italian.

The tall granite and marble memorial to Percival Mulligan was imported from Italy by the grieving parents of this young speedway star.

[8] Thomas Clarke Edwards had the largest funeral witnessed after a policeman hit him whilst he was at a protest that turned into the 1919 Fremantle Wharf riot.

Mary Higham was a local widow who became a successful businesswoman despite having to send her sons to meetings she could not attend due to sexual discrimination.

Annie Jane Sheehy was a nurse and midwife whereas Ernest Alexander Ryan was just a robber who married underworld boss Kate Leigh at a wedding celebrated in Fremantle in 1950.

[16] The next person is an escapologist: Moondyne Joe escaped capture a number of times and died in a lunatic asylum.

Her gravestone had an unusual story as it was found being used as a hearth and was only returned to the cemetery years after Jane's death.

[8] The cemetery also houses the mortal remains of Laszlo Toth, responsible for the vandalization of the Michelangelo's Pietà.

[20] The ashes of Royal New Zealand Air Force Group Captain Leonard Trent (1915–1986), a World War II Victoria Cross recipient, who died in New Zealand, were brought for burial in this cemetery,[21] alongside those of his daughter, Judith, who had predeceased him.