Brennan & Geraghtys Store

Brennan & Geraghtys Store is a background-indexed store and National Trust-run museum at Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It changed into constructed from c. 1864 to 1904. It is also referred to as Geraghty's Store. It changed into delivered to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. Brennan & Geraghty's Store became built by using companions Patrick Brennan and Martin Geraghty in what changed into then a small business centre in Lennox Street, Maryborough.

The save changed into operated by participants of the identical own family until 1972, for this reason completing a century of trading, and incorporates original stock and trading information. Maryborough turned into installed at its gift website online in 1852 as an outlet for the exchange of the Wide Bay and Burnett pastoral districts. Wool, tallow, cedar and kauri pine flowed outwards with backloads of vital substances for the stations supplying a thriving alternate. Timber became milled there and the sturdy impetus provided via the discovery of gold at nearby Gympie in 1867 quickly set up Maryborough as a prosperous commercial and banking centre. Maryborough was also a port of access and 22,000 immigrants arrived there immediately from distant places at some stage in the duration 1862-1890.