Queens Park

Queen's Park is a historical past-listed botanic garden at Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. A reserve for the botanical gardens was gazetted in October 1873. It includes the Maryborough War Memorial. It become added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. Since it turned into gazetted in 1973, Queen's Park has undergone modifications in use and in architectural and aesthetic capabilities associated with the park. In 1842, Andrew Petrie discovered the Monaboola flow, later the Mary River, upon which Maryborough grew as a port. In July 1847, Surveyor James Charles Burnett changed into sent to survey the place of the Burnett River and to comment on the situations.

The Wide Bay River was renamed the Mary River by way of the Governor Charles Augustus Fitz Roy after his spouse. By July 1850, Surveyor Hugh Roland Labatt arrived in what changed into to end up Maryborough with instructions to "have a look at the River Mary is to enable you to signify to me the quality site or websites for the laying of the city". The website endorsed for the metropolis by using Labatt turned into now not where the preliminary settlement changed into hooked up but similarly east. In 1852, the primary income of land at the prevailing website online of Maryborough have been offered, and the settlement on the north side of the river have become deserted, as larger vessels couldn't get right of entry to those wharves.