Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Maryborough has been famous for its station for decades. But there is also a lot more to see and do, including a lot of interesting local history! Everything from indigenous heritage sites to abandoned gold mining machinery left in the middle of the bush.
0:00 Intro
0:58 Maryborough Railway Station
3:34 Maryborough Flour Mill
4:14 Soldiers' Memorial Plot
5:52 Old mine shafts
7:15 Aboriginal rock wells
9:04 Battery Dam
11:26 Maryborough town
12:42 Final thoughts
13:36 Outro
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My website: philipmallis.com
Music: "Lobby Time" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensecreativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Map source: © Openstreetmap contributors, 2023
'Washing out a good prospect', ca.1858. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/92961
'Stamp battery remnants'. Goldfields Guide. https://www.goldfieldsguide.com.au/location-image/dsc-9707/8791/1200/1200-image.jpg
'Stamp batteries'. Goldfields Guide. 23 August 2021. facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3037401293244616&set=pcb.3037423129909099
'Dangers of Falling Mineshafts'. Country Fire Authority News. October 2018. via Goldfields Guide. https://www.goldfieldsguide.com.au/blog/30/dangers-of-mine-shafts-in-the-victorian-goldfields
Death shaft to be filled (1965, March 23). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131762751
CNFREE. 2024. cnfreereagent.com/wp-content/themes/list-9.4-1/img/dui.jpg
Pratt, Charles Daniel, '[Maryborough with station in foreground at left]'. ca.1926. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/20162
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Dja Dja Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging and their extensive historical connection to land, water and country.
Maryborough has been famous for its station for decades. But there is also a lot more to see and do, including a lot of interesting local history! Everything from indigenous heritage sites to abandoned gold mining machinery left in the middle of the bush.
0:00 Intro
0:58 Maryborough Railway Station
3:34 Maryborough Flour Mill
4:14 Soldiers' Memorial Plot
5:52 Old mine shafts
7:15 Aboriginal rock wells
9:04 Battery Dam
11:26 Maryborough town
12:42 Final thoughts
13:36 Outro
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My website: philipmallis.com
Music: "Lobby Time" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensecreativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
-------------SOURCES AND CREDITS
Map source: © Openstreetmap contributors, 2023
'Washing out a good prospect', ca.1858. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/92961
'Stamp battery remnants'. Goldfields Guide. https://www.goldfieldsguide.com.au/location-image/dsc-9707/8791/1200/1200-image.jpg
'Stamp batteries'. Goldfields Guide. 23 August 2021. facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3037401293244616&set=pcb.3037423129909099
'Dangers of Falling Mineshafts'. Country Fire Authority News. October 2018. via Goldfields Guide. https://www.goldfieldsguide.com.au/blog/30/dangers-of-mine-shafts-in-the-victorian-goldfields
Death shaft to be filled (1965, March 23). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131762751
CNFREE. 2024. cnfreereagent.com/wp-content/themes/list-9.4-1/img/dui.jpg
Pratt, Charles Daniel, '[Maryborough with station in foreground at left]'. ca.1926. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/20162
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Dja Dja Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging and their extensive historical connection to land, water and country.
