Historical Sites & Heritage Locations

Portside Heritage Gateway - your first port of call. Settled way back in 1847, Maryborough was where more than 22,000 free settlers took their first steps on Australian soil. Relive those early years with a vi...

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 a...

Dayman Park offers barbeque and picnic facilities, a playground with climbing net in the lower section adjacent to the Waterside Cafe and Reefworld Aquarium. The upper section of Dayman Park offers great view...

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...

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 B...

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...

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 ...

Housed in a beautiful old building, Maryborough Family Heritage Institute holds one of the largest collections of genealogy records in Queensland. The institute has an extensive amount of research material avai...

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...

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...

The Bauple Heritage Trail acknowledges the rich historical foundations of the small village of Bauple also known as the original home of the macadamia or 'bopple'nut. The self-guided tour is approximately 3.3km...

The Gatakers Building was built for Robert Travis in 1868, it and the warehouse located behind, became a warehouse for wine and spirit merchants, Graham and Gataker in 1885. In 1906, John Graham retired and Cha...

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. Step inside and hear the stories of i...

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...

The Multi Award Winning Hervey Bay Historical Village and Museum features 27 historical buildings housing over 12,000 exhibits from the Fraser Coast and Wide Bay area; these exhibits include a fully-furnished ...

A new diving attraction to the Fraser Coast. The 127-metre heavy-lift former navy ship involved in 26 major operations will spend the rest of its life in the waters between the Fraser Coast and Bundaberg as a ...

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 ...

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...

The Maryborough's Guns represent the rich history of the Fraser Coast region. The beginning of the First World War saw the Royal Australian Navy begin the process of updating its armoury. They presented the ...

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. ...

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...

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...

Brooweena War Memorial, found in the Woocoo Historical Museum's grounds, has a one-off soldier statue erected by the residents in late 1922. The origin and designer of this soldier statue is unclear, although ...

The Maheno, the most famous of the 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 a Japanese wreckin...