It was officially opened in 1922 in order to serve the needs of the Chinese Community for half a century before it ceased to be operational in 1973. This is a huge plot of land a total of 211 acres which belong to the Hokkien Seh Ong Clans. Bukit Brown was named after George Henry Brown who was a shipowner, trader, and broker in 1840. The cemetery was a burial grounds for most of the prominent and well known Singaporean in the business community, the plot of the burial ground was cut into two plots for the construction of the Pan Island Expressway the other is knows as Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Then in 2013, the cemetery was placed in 2014 World Monuments Watch which records global heritage site which is at risk of being destroyed. Before that, in 2011 the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announce the construction of a road and viaduct and it would build over the cemetery and some of the graves were due for exhumation for the project.
