Botanic Garden Walkway comes to an end at Bolton Street Cemetery. This main graveyard from 1845 until 1892 was separated into Anglican, Jewish and public sections. The gravestones display the names of prominent mid-19th century citizens, soldiers and politicians. This granite monument honors one of Wellington’s most influential residents. Englishmen Richard Seddon immigrated to New Zealand as a teenager in search of gold. He quickly rose in politics. From 1879 until 1906, he was a member of New Zealand Parliament. For 13 years, Seddon was the longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand. When he died, a legislative bill was required to bury him in the closed Bolton Street Cemetery. In the 1960s, when the Wellington Urban Motorway was designed to cut through the historic graveyard, the city displaced 3,700 graves.
