Boer War Veterans Memorial Kiosk and Lissner Park is a heritage-listed
memorial
A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or works of a ...
at Bridge Street,
Charters Towers City,
Charters Towers,
Charters Towers Region,
Queensland
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, Australia. It was built from 1883 to 1988. It was added to the
Queensland Heritage Register
The Queensland Heritage Register is a heritage register, a statutory list of places in Queensland, Australia that are protected by Queensland legislation, the Queensland Heritage Act 1992. It is maintained by the Queensland Heritage Council. As a ...
on 21 October 1992.
History
A Temporary Reserve for Public Recreation of , bounded by Anne, Deane, Bridge and Church Streets, Charters Towers, was proclaimed on 15 May 1883. In 1888 the reserve was named Lissner Park after
Isidor Lissner
Isidor Siegfried Lissner (1832 – 22 July 1902) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Early life
Lissner was born in Posen, Prussia, the son of Siegfried Lissner and Julia Gluckman ...
, a Charters Towers businessman and politician and later a minister in the 1893
Griffith Ministry. Discovered in late 1871, Charters Towers became the richest of the
North Queensland
North Queensland or the Northern Region is the northern part of the Australian state of Queensland that lies just south of Far North Quee