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Brennan & Geraghtys Store Museum

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64 Lennox St, Maryborough, QLD 4650
741212250

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Brennan & Geraghtys Store is a heritage-listed shop and National Trust -run museum at 62-66 Lennox Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

It was built from c. 1864 to 1904. It is also known as Geraghty's Store. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. . Brennan & Geraghty's Store was built by partners Patrick Brennan and Martin Geraghty in what was then a small commercial centre in Lennox Street, Maryborough. The store was operated by members of the same family until 1972, thus completing a century of trading, and contains original stock and trading records.. Maryborough was established at its present site in 1852 as an outlet for the trade of the Wide Bay and Burnett pastoral districts. Wool, tallow, cedar and kauri pine flowed outwards with backloads of essential supplies for the stations providing a thriving trade. Timber was milled there and the strong impetus provided by the discovery of gold at nearby Gympie in 1867 soon established Maryborough as a prosperous commercial and banking centre.

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64 Lennox St, Maryborough, QLD 4650

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