Purga Aboriginal Cemetery, Aboriginal cemetery in Purga, Queensland, Australia.

Purga Aboriginal Cemetery is a burial ground for Aboriginal people located along Carmichael Road with timber crosses and concrete headstones that span multiple generations. The site remains active for community burials and features interpretive signs explaining the location's background.

The cemetery was gazetted in 1968 but was in use much earlier, with the earliest marked grave dating from 1918, a few years after the Purga Creek Aboriginal Mission was established in 1914. The mission closed in 1948, ending a 27-year association with the Salvation Army, which had taken control in 1920.

The cemetery takes its name from Purga Creek, where the mission stood from 1914 to 1948. The Salvation Army, which ran the site from 1920, called it a "colony" rather than a mission, and its newspaper The War Cry reported the official opening of the Aboriginal Colony in January 1921. The earliest marked grave dates from 1918.

The site is accessible to visitors and features interpretive signs explaining its history and significance. You should walk respectfully through the grounds and respect this as an active burial place.

The cemetery was officially gazetted only in 1968, yet the earliest marked grave is from 1918, a few years after the mission opened. The mission land itself was first gazetted for Aboriginal purposes in 1892 and the reserves were rescinded in 1948.