Brief History of Maryborough. This fertile area of Queensland was the fifth area to be settled when it was still part of NSW. The first settlement in QLD was at Redcliffe (and later Moreton Bay) as a convict colony in 1824. This was followed by white settlement at Ipswich in 1842 and further inland in… Continue reading Maryborough. The Anglican Church built in 1879. The first wooden Anglican church was erected in 1852. The free standing bell tower was added in 1887 as a memorial to Mrs Aldridge.
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Maryborough. Side view of the former Joint Stock Bank in Kent St. Built in 1882 with a grand facade to the other street. P L Travers was born inside.
Brief History of Maryborough. This fertile area of Queensland was the fifth area to be settled when it was still part of NSW. The first settlement in QLD was at Redcliffe (and later Moreton Bay) as a convict colony in 1824. This was followed by white settlement at Ipswich in 1842 and further inland in… Continue reading Maryborough. Side view of the former Joint Stock Bank in Kent St. Built in 1882 with a grand facade to the other street. P L Travers was born inside.
Maryborough. Side view of Woodstock House was built in 1915 as the Queensland National Bank.A typical classical Greek style building with good symmetry and Corinthian columns.
Brief History of Maryborough. This fertile area of Queensland was the fifth area to be settled when it was still part of NSW. The first settlement in QLD was at Redcliffe (and later Moreton Bay) as a convict colony in 1824. This was followed by white settlement at Ipswich in 1842 and further inland in… Continue reading Maryborough. Side view of Woodstock House was built in 1915 as the Queensland National Bank.A typical classical Greek style building with good symmetry and Corinthian columns.
Maryborough Queensland. The interior of the old School of Arts building. It opened in 1888. This is part of the library that remains as it was then. It is now a town museum.
A stroll down Kent Avenue from Pallas Road. 1. On the left is Queen Elizabeth rose back garden. 2. The Dominion Milling Corporation manufacturing facility web page. Now derelict. The Maryborough flour mill when erected in 1890 was the furthest north in Australia. It was obtained by the Dominion Milling Business around 1910. The distinctive… Continue reading Maryborough Queensland. The interior of the old School of Arts building. It opened in 1888. This is part of the library that remains as it was then. It is now a town museum.
Maryborough. The Historical Society Museum in the old 1888 School of Arts building. An information board about an Aboriginal breast plate.
The Port of Maryborough. The city really started with a wharf as when prospective settlers acquired that the River Mary was navigable white pastoralist and cotton and maize farmers moved into the districts upstream from all-around 1848. Then in 1859 as the colony of Queensland was created from New South Wales a new international port… Continue reading Maryborough. The Historical Society Museum in the old 1888 School of Arts building. An information board about an Aboriginal breast plate.