Maryborough Attractions

264 Kent Street (Attraction)
264 Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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 the busy port of Maryborough during the 1880s. Visitors to the port may even have availed of Bliss' skills as a maker of artificial teeth. ...

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Achievers Walk (Attraction)
Wharf Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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 extraordinary Australians in fields of education, government, culture and sport. The walk also incorporates a Federation Walk in conjunction with the Centena ...

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Anzac Park and Ululah Lagoon (Attraction)
Cheapside Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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 form Maryborough's first water supply in 1859. The lagoon is now surrounded by a walk and cycle path which is also frequently in use by the abundant ...

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Baddow House (Attraction)
366 Queen Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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 England in 1837 as a bonded person. Unlike many others who moved to the new town site, Aldridge remained at the old township until his death in 1888. T ...

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Band Rotunda and Fairy Fountain (Attraction)
Lennox Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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 Exhibition and acquired it as a suitable memorial. In 1905, the fountain was moved from under the ornate roof of the rotunda to its present site to allow ...

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Bauer and Wiles Memorial Fountain (Attraction)
Lennox Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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 of the plague. Whilst looking after their patients both nurses fell ill and died from the deadly disease. ...

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Bottlebrush Crafts (Attraction)
320 Albert Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

Bottlebrush Arts and Crafts is a co-operative which aims to promote the work of local artists and crafts people through their gallery. The gallery displays and sells hand-crafted goods including pottery, sculpture, paintings, historical photos, needlework, china painting, dolls woodwork, folk art, handmade soaps and candles. Members will also take special orders for cakes, pottery, sewing, photo p ...

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Cenotaph and Memorial Gates (Attraction)
Sussex Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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 profession and Nike, the Winged Figure of Victory standing above them. The memorial gates and plaques were cast by the local Croydon Foundry. ...

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Central State School (Attraction)
471 Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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 lantern tower remains. The main school building was constructed in 1875/6 to be the second Immigration Barracks, but as the first Government School wa ...

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Charlcombe (Attraction)
354 Ann Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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 the houses have distinctive gables, balustrade and trims. Please note this is a private residence and not open to the public. ...

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Criterion Hotel (Attraction)
98 Wharf Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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 was changed to Riverview in 1915 and to the Criterion in 1941. The Proprietors for many years were Sarah and Neil Blue. Neil died in 1893 after helping ...

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Custom House Hotel (Attraction)
Wharf Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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 had a brush with fame in 1989 when it was used as a setting for the filming of the movie "The Delinquents" starring Kylie Minogue. The ghosts of a man, w ...

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Elizabeth Park Rose Gardens (Attraction)
Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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 cemetery. In 1921, the land was converted to a public park, and now is full of beautiful rose gardens. ...

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Ellena Street Pavement Art and Sculpture (Attraction)
Ellena Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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 Maryborough industry. The sculpture is a fly wheel cut in half which was originally fitted to a single cylinder kynoch suction gas engine in the powerhouse o ...

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Engineers Arms (Attraction)
115 March Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia

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. Engineer's Arms is now the location of Mary Delicious and is also a bed and breakfast. ...

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