Maryborough Attractions
264 Kent Street
This building at 264 Kent Street was erected in 1875 and was occupied by J H Bliss, a watchmaker and jeweller, who specialised in the supply and repair of maritime chronometers, barometers, sextants and navigational instruments. This business served ...
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Achievers Walk
The Maryborough Walk of Achievers in Richmond and Wharf Streets was developed in three years over five stages. These plaques honour their pioneers, Olympians, and people from Maryborough who, through their achievements, have gone on to become extrao ...
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Anzac Park and Ululah Lagoon
Once a favourite spot for aboriginal corroborees, the area is now a beautiful park, centred on the Ululah Lagoon. In 1852, the first land sales were held for the new town here, in a simple slab hut. Horse-drawn scoops were used to clear the lagoon to ...
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Baddow House
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Recently restored to its original design, Baddow House was the third home built in the area by pioneer settler Edgar Aldridge. Edgar built the home for his wife Maria, a convict woman transported from ...
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Band Rotunda and Fairy Fountain
Miss Janet Melville bequeathed the Fairy Fountain and Band Rotunda in memory of her brother Andrew who was Mayor of Maryborough in 1863. The entire structure was imported from Scotland in 1890 after the Hon. A.H. Wilson MLA saw it at the Glasgow Exh ...
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Bauer and Wiles Memorial Fountain
Australia's only outbreak of the pneumonic plague was in Maryborough in 1905. This fountain, situated to the Lennox Street side of City Hall, is a memorial to the two Nurses Cecilia Bauer and Rose Wiles who courageously volunteered to nurse victims ...
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Cenotaph and Memorial Gates
The Maryborough Cenotaph was erected in 1922 with funds obtained by public subscription as a memorial to the fallen of the First World War. The memorial includes five Italian Carrara marble statues which portray the Army, Navy, Airforce and Nursing p ...
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Central State School
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - The first building of Central State School is the Infants School which opened 1882. The single storey timber building originally had a shingle roof but this has been replaced with iron. However the lant ...
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Charlcombe
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Charlcombe was built for Stewart Corser in 1917 and originally had a tiled roof which had to be replaced following a hail-storm in 1966. This house contrasts with the workers cottage next door. Both of ...
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Criterion Hotel
The Prince of Wales, a single storey boarding house, first occupied this site. This was licensed as the Melbourne Hotel in 1864 but was destroyed by fire in 1878. A two story building was rebuilt here and the third story was added in 1882. The name w ...
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Custom House Hotel
Mr George Galbraith was the proprietor of Maryborough's Custom House Hotel when it was built in 1868. 1883 saw the Customs House extended. Its past elegance reflects the rapid growth of the port at the time of the 1867 Gympie gold rush. The hotel h ...
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Elizabeth Park Rose Gardens
The Elizabeth Park Rose Gardens was the site of Maryborough's second official cemetery, which closed in 1873. As the town expanded the cemetery was deemed a public health risk, and by 1907, moves were made to remove headstones and remains to the new ...
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Ellena Street Pavement Art and Sculpture
Primary School students designed the pavers for the Ellena Street Pavement Art and Sculpture, with the theme being "I can find it in Maryborough". Maryborough born artist Susie Hansen designed the large sculpture in the street as a tribute to Marybor ...
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Engineers Arms
The current Engineer’s Arms building was built in 1889, by Mrs Dillane to replace the original 1870 building. The former hotel was designed to fit the wedge-shaped block. It is reminiscent of early pubs in Sydney associated with the waterfront. En ...
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Eskdale House
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Eskdale House is a two-storey brick home in Pallas Street. It had its own stables, green-houses, gymnasium and tennis court. Built in 1864, E.B.C Corser bought it in 1866; he entered State politics in ...
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Excelsior Band Hall
Maryborough’s modern Excelsior Band Hall replaces the earlier hall destroyed by fire in 1987. It was designed in Victorian Style to compliment the precinct. The Style selection also commemorates the length of time to which bands have added to the ...
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Fay Smith Wetlands
For a different type of experience, walk through one of the last remaining wetlands in the Maryborough area, Fay Smith Wetlands. There is a series of walking bridges and walking trails through the Fay Smith Wetlands, allowing visitors to enjoy the a ...
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Former Australian Joint Stock Bank
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - This rendered brick building, the Former Australian Joint Stock Bank, was built in 1882 for the Maryborough Branch of the Australian Joint Stock Bank. The Union Bank occupied the building from 1906. The ...
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Former Flour Mill
The Maryborough Flour Mill was the most northerly flour mill in Australia when it was built in 1890, for the Maryborough Milling Company. In 1919, the Dominion Flour Milling Company who now owned the mill bought the remaining relic of Aldershot smelt ...
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Former Hotel Francis
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Former Hotel Francis is the site of the first hotel built in the new Maryborough Township in 1853, the Maryborough Inn. The current building, erected as a single storey in 1878, is the third hotel to oc ...
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Former Queens Hotel
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - The original Queens Hotel was destroyed in the 1876 fire, and was rebuilt a few years later. The Goodwin family opened the first hotel here in 1864. In 1866, the proprietress, a young single woman saved ...
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Former Royal Bank of Queensland
The Royal Bank of Queensland opened its Maryborough branch in 1888 in this Kent Street building known as Windsor House. In 1922 the Royal Bank of Queensland merged with the Queensland National Bank. The building features the Baroque revival style ...
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Former Stuparts Building
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Mr Stupart purchased his first business in Maryborough in 1871, unfortunately he lost it all in the 1876 fire. He soon rebuilt the two-storey Criterion building, Former Stuparts Building, facing Kent St ...
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Gatakers Building
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Gatakers Building and the warehouse behind are the oldest surviving commercial buildings in Maryborough. Gatakers Building was built for Robert Travis in 1868, it and the warehouse located behind, beca ...
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J E Brown Warehouse
J E Brown commenced business as a provisions and victuals merchant in 1857 in Richmond Street. In 1879 J E Brown had this two-storey brick warehouse built and was designed by a local architect James Buchanan. In later years, the premises were used f ...
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Janets Art Books
Janet's Art is an experience not to be missed! It is an art gallery with local and interstate art and a stunning range of greeting cards; a gift shop with unique jewellery, stained glass, woodwork, silk and artefacts from around the world and a book ...
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Mary Ann Steam Engine
The Mary Ann is a replica of the first steam engine built in Queensland in 1873 at John Walker and Co's Union Foundry. It steams through the park along the rail tracks which were laid to service the wharves and Walker's Foundry. The Mary Ann operates ...
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Mary Delicious
Step back in time as you enter Mary Delicious, an ice-cream parlour and milk bar specialising in home-made fudge and confectionery. The home made fudge comes in an impressive array of flavours to tempt the taste buds, including rocky road, Malteser, ...
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Mary Poppins Statue
Located on the corner of Kent and Richmond streets a statue of Mary Poppins stands proudly as recognition of Maryborough’s link with the famous nanny. PL Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough in 1899. Mary Poppins has universal appeal. ...
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Mary River
The Mary River has been known by many names, with the Aborigines calling the river Booie, Moonaboola, Numabulla or Mooraboocoola. It was named the Wide Bay River until in September 1848, when Governor Fitzroy renamed the river in honour of his wife, ...
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Mary River Parklands
The historic Port of Maryborough area has been transformed into a stunning public park complete with outstanding public art works. The Mary River Parklands forms part of the historic Portside Precinct. It plays an integral role in the City's urban ...
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Maryborough Base Hospital
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - The first public hospital outside Brisbane was established in Maryborough in 1856. This was replaced by a two storey building in Lennox Street in 1864. This present hospital was opened in May 1887 at a ...
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Maryborough Cemetery
The third official Maryborough cemetery was established in 1873 and burials were on a strictly denominational basis. The cemetery contains many fine examples of early Queensland monumental art. The Mortuary Chapel, was built 1883, and designed so hor ...
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Maryborough City Hall
Designed by Brisbane architects Hall and Dods in American colonial style, Maryborough City Hall was erected in 1908 to replace the original timber Town Hall which stood on the opposite side of Kent Street. The exterior was built with locally made Mer ...
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Maryborough City Whistle Stop Incorporated
Every Thursday, market day and on the last Sunday of each month, the Whistle Stop rail museum at the old Maryborough railway station is open with guided tours. A dedicated team of volunteers run the ‘Mary Train’. It operates every Thursday along ...
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Maryborough Court House
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - The Court House was built in 1877 on the site of the former Immigration Barracks. Colonial Architect F D G Stanley designed the building for the State Lands Office and local builder J T Annear completed ...
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Maryborough Fire Station
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - There have been three fire stations in Maryborough. The first fire station was a simple shed run by volunteers. The second was located where the Commonwealth Bank now stands in Adelaide Street. This ...
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Maryborough Freemasons Centre
Freemasonry was first established in Maryborough in 1870, sponsored by the Irish Union Concert Constitution, with meetings being held in the old Baptist Chapel in Lennox Street. The first freemason temple was built in 1877 in Bazaar Street and the p ...
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Maryborough Heritage Centre
Maryborough Heritage Centre was built for the Bank of New South Wales in 1878. Iron columns support the verandahs which are decorated with fine iron lace balustrades upstairs and wrought iron on the lower level. During the Gympie gold rush, four mil ...
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Maryborough Heritage City Markets
The Heritage City of Maryborough comes alive on market day, every Thursday, with stalls lining Adelaide and Ellena Streets in the Central Business District. The shopping experience begins at 8.00 a.m. with fresh home grown fruit and vegetables, plant ...
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Maryborough Post Office
The Post Office opened in 1866 and is the oldest surviving masonry Post Office in Queensland. In those early days, attached to the top of the tower, was a wooden pole holding a Time Ball which was lowered each day at 1.00 p.m. The tower was extended ...
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Maryborough Railway Station
Built in 1882, the heritage listed Maryborough Railway Station features a Victorian design. The stationmaster’s residence has much of the character of larger Queensland houses of that era. The railway complex also houses the Whistlestop Museum, whi ...
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Maryborough State High School
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - Maryborough State High School became amalgamated in 1974; prior to this it was a split school with Kent Street separating them. The former Boys Grammar School was built in 1881. It is a two storey Vict ...
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Maryborough Sugar Factory Pty Ltd
Featured on the Maryborough Heritage City Walk and Drive Tour - The first Maryborough sugar to be manufactured was in 1864 when John Buhot demonstrated sugar making using cane grown from John Eatons plantation Rose Hill Estate. The Maryborough Sugar ...
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Maryborough Town Hall Green
It was here at the site of the first Maryborough court house, police station and gaol, that in 1877, gallows and a hangman were brought from Brisbane and two felons were publicly hung. For many decades Maryborough Town Hall Green has been a place for ...
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Maryboroughs Glory Hole
Maryborough's Glory Hole is now a featured part of the Ululah Lagoon. It is believed to have been built as early as the 1880s. The Glory Hole is of a rare design and outdates any other work in Australia by 80 years, making it historically significa ...
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Maryboroughs Guns
The beginning of the First World War saw the Royal Australian Navy begin the process of updating its armoury. They presented the three guns, located in Queens Park overlooking the Mary River, as a gift to the City of Maryborough. The three guns wer ...
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Mavis Bank Historic House Museum
In a Colonial setting among magnificent gardens is Mavis Bank, originally called Ormond and built between 1862 and 1874. The land was bought in 1849 by James Cleary, who was a friend and protector of the aboriginals and the first vegetable and dairy ...
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Melsa
Children and adults can climb onboard one of the many miniature steam engines at Melsa, which run on a circuit around Queens Park. The sight of little legs – and not so little legs – dangling from tiny carriages as the trains weave around the tr ...
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Old Warehouse Gallery
The Maryborough Art Society is located in the Old Warehouse Gallery in the Portside Passage precinct, between Kent and Wharf Streets. The gallery is home to constantly changing exhibitions of work by local and regional artists. The gallery is mann ...
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