Maryborough Attractions

Maryborough (pop. 23,000) in its day an important river port on the Mary River from which wool, sugar and building timber were shipped, was settled at an early stage, and its role as a supply center for the goldfields round Gympie (90km south; see entry) from 1867 brought further prosperity. Nowadays the port installations have disappeared and 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.