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School of Arts

Maryborough Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

This School of Arts building was constructed in the classic revival style in 1887 and contained a library, museum, reading room, technical college and a billiard room. It replaced the first School of Arts built...

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Maryborough City Hall

Maryborough Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

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 ...

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Colonial Naval Guns

Maryborough Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

Visit Queen’s Park and marvel at the nineteenth century gun technology, including an early version of a machine gun. You may have noticed there is an empty concrete plinth next to the naval guns. What was it fo...

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St Pauls Anglican Church Maryborough

Maryborough Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

Maryborough Anglican Parish is one of the oldest parishes in Queensland with its beginnings traceable to 1847. St Paul’s Anglican Church in the heart of Maryborough CBD and has a very strong community presenc...

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Dayman Park

Hervey Bay Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

Dayman Park offers barbeque and picnic facilities, a playground with climbing net in the lower section adjacent to the Waterfront Restaurant and Reefworld Aquarium. The upper section of Dayman Park offers gre...

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Cenotaph and Memorial Gates

Maryborough Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

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 port...

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Gatakers Artspace & Creative Space

Maryborough Art, History & Culture

The Gatakers Building was built for Robert Travis in 1868. It' and the warehouse located behind, later became a warehouse for wine and spirit merchants, Graham and Gataker in 1885. In 1906 when John Graham reti...

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264 Kent Street

Maryborough Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

264 Kent Street is another great addition to the variety of historically significant buildings to be found in Maryborough on the Fraser Coast. This building at 264 Kent Street was erected in 1875 and was occup...

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Bauer and Wiles Memorial Fountain

Maryborough Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

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 co...

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Excelsior Band Hall

Maryborough Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

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 design choice also commemorates the length of t...

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Maryborough Town Hall Green

Maryborough Art, History & Culture

For many decades Maryborough Town Hall Green has been a place for residents and visitors to meet and is a popular vantage point to sit and watch the passing parade. It was here at the site of the first Maryboro...

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The Story Bank

Maryborough Art, History & Culture

Once upon a time, a baby girl was born in the upstairs bedroom at the Australian Joint Stock Bank, Kent Street in Maryborough, Queensland. Her name was Helen Lyndon Goff, but she became known to the world as P...

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Original Maryborough Town Site

Maryborough Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

Pioneer graves help to create a sense of history when visiting the Original Maryborough site, known as the Wide Bay Village, it was first settled by Aldridge and the Palmer Brothers in 1848, although George Fur...

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Customs House and Residence

Maryborough Art, History & Culture

The glorious colonial architecture of the Customs House and Residence, honours the once significant influence of Her Majesty’s Customs Service on the city of Maryborough. In the early 1900s Maryborough was th...

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Gallipoli to Armistice Memorial

Maryborough Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

The Gallipoli to Armistice Memorial traces the birth of the Anzac legend, drawn from the personal perspectives in letters written home to loved ones by Wide Bay district men who fought on the front line, includ...

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Brooweena Historical Village and Museum

Howard, Torbanlea and Surrounds Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

The Brooweena Historical Village is a charming village depicting what life was like in days gone by, set in a tranquil rural setting in the hamlet of Brooweena 304 kilometres north of Brisbane. Europeans first ...

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Bond Store

Maryborough Art, History & Culture

Explore the Bond Store and let this beautiful, heritage-listed building share its stories with you as you wander through the space. See the earthen floors of this former store for her Majesty's Customs Service...

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Brennan And Geraghtys Store Museum

Maryborough Art, History & Culture

View the remarkable store that time forgot! This large grocery store was operated by one family from 1871 to 1972 until it closed its doors with trading records and stock dating back to the 1890s, all preserved...

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Pioneer Country Park

Maryborough Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

Pioneer Country Park is an important historical site on the Fraser Coast, with a section of the eastern boundary once part of Eaton Vale Station, the first European occupation in the district. It was also the ...

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Urangan Pier

Hervey Bay Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

A must-see attraction at Queensland's Fraser Coast is Hervey Bay's famous and historic Urangan Pier - it's one of the longest in Australia. It stretches for almost one kilometre into the ocean. A walk to the e...

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Mary Valley Rattler

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Let them take you back in time to a bygone era aboard the Historic Mary Valley Rattler! The Historic Gympie Station on Tozer Street has been restored to its former glory. Rusty Rails Cafe offers a variety of me...

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Dickabram Bridge

Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

The Dickabram Bridge stands as a testament to history, a heritage-listed marvel spanning the Mary River in Gympie, Queensland. Located in Miva 30 mins NW of Gympie CBD, the bridge was built in 1886 by McDermott...

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Maheno Shipwreck

K'gari (Formerly Fraser Island) Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

The Maheno, the most famous of the K'gari (formerly Fraser Island) wrecks, was driven ashore just north of Happy Valley during a cyclone in 1935. Once a well-known trans-Tasman liner, the Maheno was bound for ...

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Freedom Park

Hervey Bay Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

Freedom Park is in the historical heart of Hervey Bay. The Pialba War Memorial, unveiled in 1921 to commemorate the men from the district who served in World War I, forms the centre of a memorial complex that...

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