Cleveland No.1 Cemetery

At the end of Lisa Street Cleveland, is one of the oldest cemeteries in the Redlands. Cleveland was once touted as a potential port for the Moreton Bay district. A township was subdivided in December 1850 and the first land sales occurred in 1851. The cemetery was surveyed in 1858 on a site bounded by Wellington, Queen, Russell and Smith Streets, and burial sites allocated according to religious denomination. There are 11 identified burials in this cemetery and likely many more unidentified ones, with the cemetery operating between 1858 and 1873. Some burials are those of children, and the gravesites of a fisherman, carpenter and local publican can also be seen. The most interesting grave is that of Arthur Sydney Lyon, who died in 1861. He established the Moreton Bay Courier in partnership with James Swan in 1846. That paper was sold and he then established the Moreton Bay Free Press from 1849 to 1855, the Northern Australian in Ipswich from 1855 to 1858, followed by the Darling Downs Gazette from 1858. Not surprisingly Lyon was known as the 'Father of Queensland Press'. The Cleveland community then established a second cemetery in 1873, on higher ground diagonally opposite the original.