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Under Mount Tennent lies the rural village of Tharwa, few minutes walking distance from southern suburbs of Canberra. Tharwa is the aboriginal word for Mount Tennent, and it is the earliest official village in the Australian Capital Territory, has been declared a township in 1862. Enjoy the calmness when you visit the old Tharwa School House; the 1922 general store that is still in service today; Saint Edmund's Church; Tharwa Bridge and Reserve; the Cuppacumbalong Cemetery and Cuppacumbalong Craft Centre. On the banks of the Murrumbidgee River Cuppacumbalong homestead is situated, from where take a 20 minute walk south to a high spot overlooking the junction of the rivers and find out this historic cemetery called Cuppacumbalong Cemetery, Canberra. It is one of a few remaining, undamaged, 19th century cemeteries on isolated countrified holdings. This cemetery is closely connected with Count Leopold Fane de Salis and his family, who stayed at Cuppacumbalong from 1856 to 1894. Until 1905, as a minimum of 16 people linked with the de Salis family including the count, his wife, their second son and station staff were buried here. The location of the Cuppacumbalong Cemetery is given below:
Cuppacumbalong Cemetery
Cuppacumbalong homestead
Junction Murrumbidgee & Gudgenby Rivers, off Naas Road,
Tharwa,
Canberra, 2620
Australia
Nearest Station: Twenty-five minutes drive to the south of central Canberra.
Neighbourhood: Outside the city
Telephone: 61 (0)2 6239 5222 (National Trust of Australia (ACT))
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