Maryborough, Australia Tourism

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Maryborough has become an industrial town (sawmills, sugar factory). It has preserved so many late 19th C. buildings that it is known as Queensland's Heritage City.

The tourist information center in Ferry Street, near the bridge over the river, issues a brochure describing a Heritage Walk through the town.

Among the most notable old buildings are the City Hall (1908) in Kent Street; the School of Arts Building (1887), headquarters of the Historical Society, also in Kent Street; the post office (1869) in Bazaar Street; Windsor House (1888, Kent Street); the Royal Hotel (1902, Kent Street); the customs house and Customs House Hotel (1870, Wharf Street), on the river; and St Paul's Church.

There are also many old houses in typical Queensland style, well adapted to the hot weather. Many of them are built on stilts as a protection against heavy rain and to improve ventilation; they have wide roofed verandahs and are richly decorated with wrought-iron railings. The town also has attractive parks and gardens.