Location:
Deane Street
Description:
Lissner Park comprises of seven hectares including Boer War Kiosk, Band Rotunda, children's playground, World War One guns, Rotary Centenary Fountain, Federation Fountain and memorials to grazier William Hann and pioneer Jupiter Mossman. Lissner Park is well lit therefore perfect for evening picnics. There are picnic tables, gas barbecues and it is always cool and shady. The trees within the park include figs, jacarandas, eucalypts, tamarinds, burdekin plum, milky pines, palms and silky oaks.The park was named after Isidor Siegfried Lissner who arrived in Charters Towers in 1873. During his time in Charters Towers, Lissner developed a financial empire based on mining and commercial interests. He took a keen interest in community affairs and pushed for the establishment of sporting facilities and public amenities such as Lissner Park.The park has been a focus for community cultural and social activities since its inception and was the venue for commemorative events and for political gatherings during the turbulent years of the rise of the Labour party during the last decade of the nineteenth century. Other celebrations held in the park included Queen Victoria's jubilee, the birth of Federation, memorial events at the death of Queen Victoria and events to honour people who went to the Boer War and World War One.It is not known who built the Boer War Kiosk which was constructed in 1909. An honour board, erected at the western end of the kiosk, contains the names of those soldiers from the district who lost their lives during the Boer War. Over 7000 people attended the opening ceremony and enjoyed the promenade concert after the opening by Mayor SH Thorp. The celebrations lasted all day and during the evening the band rotunda, fountain and kiosk were brightly lit for the concert.
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