Maryborough Botanic Gardens
| Queen's Park, Maryborough | |
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Band rotunda in Queen's Park, 2009
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| Location | Sussex Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 25°32′10″S 152°42′16″E / 25.5361°S 152.7045°ECoordinates: 25°32′10″S 152°42′16″E / 25.5361°S 152.7045°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | c. 1873 - c. 1990 |
| Official name: Queen's Park, War Memorial and Entrance Gates; Bandstand; Banyan Fig; Bunya Pine; Crows Ash; Sausage Tree | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600708 |
| Significant period | 1890-1922 (fabric) 1873-ongoing (social) |
| Significant components | pathway/walkway, memorial - fountain, fernery, lake / pond / waterway, memorial - obelisk, bandstand/rotunda, trees/plantings, tree groups - avenue of, memorial - gate/s, memorial - soldier statue |
 Location of Queen's Park, Maryborough in Queensland
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Queen's Park is a heritage-listed botanic garden at Sussex Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. A reserve for the botanical gardens was gazetted in October 1873. It contains the Maryborough War Memorial. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Since it was gazetted in 1973, Queen's Park has undergone changes in use and in architectural and aesthetic features associated with the park.
In 1842, Andrew Petrie discovered the Monaboola stream, later the Mary River, upon which Maryborough grew as a port. In July 1847, Surveyor James Charles Burnett was sent to survey the area of the Burnett River and to comment on the conditions. The Wide Bay River (after Petrie's Monaboola) was renamed the Mary River by the Governor Charles Augustus FitzRoy after his wife. By July 1850, Surveyor Hugh Roland Labatt arrived in what was to become Maryborough with instructions to "examine the River Mary is to enable you to suggest to me the best site or sites for the laying of the town..." The site recommended for the town by Labatt was not where the initial settlement was established but further east. In 1852, the first sales of land at the present site of Maryborough were sold, and the settlement on the north side of the river became deserted, as larger vessels could not access these wharves.
The 1850s and 1860s were a time of growth and expansion in Maryborough, the first hospital was underway by 1859, a courthouse and lock-up was constructed in 1857; the School of Arts was established in 1861; also that year Messrs Gladwell and Greathead began the first sawmill. Upon the separation of Queensland in 1859, Maryborough was declared a port of entry. In March 1861, Maryborough was proclaimed a municipality, and Henry Palmer became the first Mayor. Palmer helped shape Maryborough's destiny during its early years. During a meeting of the Municipal Council of 3 November 1865, Palmer proposed that "immediate application be made by the Council to the government for all the portion of the Wharf Reserve not required for shipping purposes to be used as a public garden and for recreation purposes".
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