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As early as 1943 the third Victoria bridge, built in 1897, was showing signs of cracking. The fourth (current) bridge opened in April 1969 and the steel bridge was demolished, apart from a portion of the southern abutment and pedestrian arch.
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Wilson Hart and Company Limited was founded in 1867. The sawmill burne down in 1881 and was rebuilt on the other side of the river with a railwat siding connecting the Maryborough Wharf to the Maryborough – Gympie railway line, completed in 1882. The mill again burnt down in 1934 and was reopened in 1936. It closed in 1986 and the site is not an entertainment centre.
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John Walker and three friends set up the Union Foundry of John Walker & Co in Ballarat, Victoria. In 1867 a branch was opened in Maryborough, Queensland, becoming Walkers Limited in 1869. In 1980 Walkers Limited was sold to Evans Deakin Industries. It was included in the purchase of Evans Deakin by Downer Group in March 2001. Amongst many other projects, Walkers Limited built locomotives for the Queensland Railways and ships for the Royal Australian Navy.
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The Attack-class patrol boats were built for the Roysl Australian Navy in 1967-68. They were built by two Queensland shipyards, Evans Deakin in Brisbane and Walkers in Maryborough.
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From the Queensland Heritage Register.
“Yungaba” is a two-storey brick institutional building designed as an immigrant depot in 1885 by John James Clark, colonial architect for Queensland. Following his dismissal shortly after, the plan was developed by Edward Henry Alder and Robert Henry Mills. Constructed by William Peter Clark, the building is described as being of Italianate/Queensland/ Institutional style.
Following the subdivision of Kangaroo Point in 1843-44, lots 21 and 22 were purchased by Judah and Isaac Solomon and Thomas Adams. Some time later John “Tinker” Campbell, a neighbouring land-owner, purchased a share in both lots and transferred his boiling-down works to that location to gain the benefit of the small stream which crossed the properties. Following a series of financial transactions, the land was eventually purchased by Robert Douglas in 1853 for £400. Douglas constructed a house on lot 21 which he named “The Willows”. Douglas
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A party of settlers founded a settlement at Cleveland Bay in 1864. In 1866 the entrepreneur and businessman Robert Towns agreed to provide financial support to the settlement, which was named Townsville after him in 1866.
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The migrant ship Star of England departed London on 4 March 1866 and arrived in Moreton Bay on 11 July.
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Estuary shark, also known as Blainville’s Dogfish, Eulamia lamia and Squalus chloroculus.
Artwork by Frank Olsen from Tom C. Marshall’s “Tropical Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef” (1966) black/white plate 5 No 12.
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Mackay is named after John Mackay who led an expedition to the Pioneer Valley in 1860.
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The coral cay was called Dabuukji in the local Gungganyji language, and according to local oral history was about four times its current size. It was named Green Island by James Cook in 1770. A tourist resort opened in the 1930s and an underwater observatory was built near the end of the pier in 1954.
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