The early times in Maryborough

Evidence of human inhabitation of the Maryborough region stretches back to at least 6,000 years ago. The Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi) & Batjala (Butchulla) people were the original inhabitants of the region. Gubbi were described as an inland tribe of the Wide Bay–Burnett area. The Batjala occupied the more coastal regions including K’gari (Fraser Island). In 1842, Andrew Petrie & Henry Stuart Russell sailed up the river known to the Gubbi as the Monoboola (now the Mary River) looking for land and timber to exploit. Until 1842, little was known about the Maryborough region. Cook, Flinders & Oxley had charted the coastline, but the arrival of Edgar T. Aldridge & his party in 1848 was the catalyst for the rapid growth of a village, a port for wool &other primary produce, and the establishment of a sawmill on the northern bank of the Mary River. Early Maryborough economy was centred around livestock farming, logging of the bunya pine forests, and the boiling down of animal carcasses to make tallow. In the late 1850's the soil along the Mary River was deemed ideal for the cultivation of sugarcane and in 1859 E. T. Aldridge was able to grow & produce a world-class experimental crop. From the 1840's to well after 1900, Maryborough & Sydney were the only two ports on Australia's east coast permitted to accept and process immigrants. More than 30,000 people - Scots, Danes, Germans, Kanakas (Fiji and Vanuatu islanders) & others, passed through Maryborough on their way to a new life.The whole of Maryborough's wharf precinct is a cultural treasure. Ghosts from the 19th Century seem to frequent the Customs House Hotel, in Maryborough's Wharf Street. Strange things have been known to happen there all the time, taps get mysteriously turned on, or you'll hear noises on the staircase in the middle of the night.

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