The Walhalla Cemetery is listed as one of the states most unique cemeteries and has been recommended for heritage listing due to its historical value to the area. With around 1300 known burials, the earliest in 1866, the Walhalla cemetery is a testimonial to the hardships of life in the Walhalla Goldfields, a walk around the head stones show a lot of people died quite young and as the records show they died from illnesses now treated by vaccination such as Whooping cough and Diphtheria as well as mining related problems like silicosis.

The Walhalla Cemetery is the last resting place for a lot of thereal Gippsland pioneers and the rumour is that quite a few of these pioneers were buried vertically in the Walhalla Cemetery.

The Walhalla cemetery is one place you have look around if you are in Walhalla