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Just In. Premium Content You can have your say on how Fraser fires were managed. Top Stories. The trade of supplying the goldfields discovered at Gympie in also went through Maryborough. Of the early Queensland towns that existed by the time of Separation from New South Wales in , only Maryborough retains most of its originally occupied town site in an open, undeveloped state. The original settlement areas of Brisbane including at Redcliffe , Dalby , Drayton , Gayndah, Gladstone , Ipswich, Rockhampton , Toowoomba and Warwick have all been developed and are currently occupied.
The site of West Maryborough is largely still undeveloped.
Signs were erected in a Bicentennial project to indicate the sites of various historical structures. Although the site of McAdam's house, southeast of the intersection of George and Aldridge Streets, is now freehold land outside the heritage boundary, the locations of all the remaining buildings of the settlement, as mapped by Labatt in , remain undeveloped in As indicated in a archaeological study, the river receded from its s waterline, and waterholes and streams in the area silted over.
The vast majority of the surface evidence of the settlement was removed or obscured by the combined effects of flooding or human intervention. The site was periodically flooded and over a metre of silt was deposited on the river terrace where Furber Street is located. Sugar cane was grown over part of the site in the early twentieth century and fossickers have also combed the area for souvenirs. In a farmhouse was moved onto the northwest end of the site outside the Queensland heritage register boundary , near where Palmer's inn stood, but it has been since removed, along with its outbuildings.
Cane farming on the pasture that lies to the northwest of the current parkland has resulted in a long mound running parallel to, and to the east of, Queen Street. A Maryborough City Council sewerage treatment plant was built near the location of Aldridge's inn, but was removed by A long thin mound running through the pasture parallel to, and to the west of, Queen Street may be related to this.
The site of the plant's tank was the circular hollow between the sites of the first and second of Aldridge's inns. The stone and concrete jetty near the mouth of Muddy Creek is close to the alignment of Furber's wharf, but was built for the STP outfall pipe. The known extent of the built township extends outside the heritage register boundary.
This area encompasses one-third of the buildings of the settlement, and accommodated a variety of activities - residential, commercial, administrative and pastoral.
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Structures within this area included Palmer's Inn, Palmer's Store, Blackman's hut, store and enclosed yard, the gaol, Emanuel Thorpe's hut and enclosed yard, and several huts. In an archaeological investigation conducted within this area revealed artefacts and features dating to the historical occupation period, including deposits of bottle glass, moulded tobacco pipes, porcelain and stoneware fragments, as well as personal items such as a brass button and a copper half penny. The lack of previous access to the historical occupation layers due to the location of later structures, now removed and improved mapping technology suggesting possible alternative locations for historic structures , indicate the areas of known occupation outside the heritage register boundary may still have archaeological potential.
In the Fraser Coast Regional Council maintains and provides interpretation of the town site. Indications of the early site include: gravesites; sawpits; stone building foundations ; bridge remnants; and archaeological material. The site stretches over a series of creek-lined gullies and is currently occupied by a mixture of open parkland, pasture and heavy vegetation. The main entry to the site is along Aldridge Street, the only surveyed road within the town site that is sealed and open to public vehicles.
This road did not exist when the town was settled and the park area near the intersection of Alice and Aldridge Streets was originally the cemetery. The extent of the cemetery is not known but the grass-covered park on the northwest side of Aldridge Street contains the marked graves of George Furber and Joseph Wilmshurst.
The park contains at least one other identified grave, now marked only by a headstone plinth. Numerous other depressions in the ground are suggestive of several unmarked graves. Two more marked graves are located on the opposite side of Aldridge Street.
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The site extends southwest down both sides of Aldridge Street. Just past the unformed intersection with George Street the road crosses a creek at the bottom of a gully. In the creek bed on the southeast side of the road are the remains of the original creek crossing. These consist largely of remnants of structural timbers.
The large park area on this side of Aldridge Street was originally the site of Chinese gardens. There is a carpark at the southwest end of Aldridge Street, which currently stops short of Queen Street. From the carpark, the site of Aldridge's first inn lies to the west. Muddy Creek runs through the southeast side of the site, and joins the Mary River southwest of the end of Aldridge Street. The land to the southeast of Aldridge Street and the site of Aldridge's inns drops down towards the creek. East of the creek's mouth is a concentration of bamboo, mature native trees and other exotic species, and a small stone and concrete jetty stands just upriver from the mouth of Muddy Creek, near the site of Furber's inn.
Northwest of the mouth of Muddy Creek, the terrain rises from the river to a river terrace, where Furber Street is located. The river terrace is quite flat and is framed by Muddy Creek to the southeast, a ridge to the northwest near the junction of Furber Street and Palmer Street, and another ridge to the northeast the parallels to the Mary River. Much of the original township spread along the top of the northeastern ridge, with most buildings located on the southwest side of Queen Street.
The lower river terrace is covered with over a metre of flood-deposited sediment that has help protect archaeological material; council workers have encountered archaeological deposits during on-site works. The topsoil on the main ridge along Queen Street has been scoured in some areas, reducing its archaeological potential. Shale and course stone is evident where the ground is bare along the ridge. Some stone foundation work remains on the site of Aldridge's first inn. Behind the Queen Street ridge the land dips, before rising towards a second ridge. The river terrace, the site of Aldridge's two inns, the land by Muddy Creek, and the site of the pioneer graveyard, is largely open grassed parkland dotted with trees.
Much of the old township is located in an adjacent paddock to the northwest. The paddock is largely clear of trees. There is patchy grass cover, with some areas of bare earth. The line of the old Gayndah road can still be seen, descending to the river terrace from near the site of Palmer's inn. There is little above-surface evidence of the town, but the placement of the structure markers enable the town's layout to be understood. Some features such as the marked graves and sawpits are clearly evident. Modern built features within the heritage boundary are not of cultural heritage significance.
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Original Maryborough Town Site was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 4 September having satisfied the following criteria. The Original Maryborough Town Site demonstrates the evolution of early settlements in Queensland's history, in particular the movement of pastoralists and timber-getters into the Wide Bay district in the s, and their need for a safe port to ship their products and to bring in supplies.
Established in and largely abandoned by , the town site provides relatively undisturbed evidence of early European occupation in the Wide Bay Region. Its abandonment reflects the need to establish a viable settlement with better river access. The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage.
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Of those towns in existence by the time of Separation from New South Wales in , Maryborough is the only one that retains most of its originally occupied town site in an open, relatively undeveloped condition. The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Queensland's history. As a rare example of an early and substantial Queensland town site that has remained in a relatively undeveloped state since its abandonment, the Original Maryborough Town Site has the potential to yield information that will contribute to our understanding of Queensland's history.