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Court
House Hotel History
In the development of most towns in Australia, the hotels or pubs were an integral part. A place where working men, friends and families would meet to discuss their fates and fortunes. Where yarns and tall stories would flow as freely as the ice cold beer.
Port Douglas was no exception. There were some twenty-one residential hotels and grog shanties by 1877 with a population of about 400 people.
This early growth was caused largely by the discovery of gold on the Hodgkinson River.
The town had been known as Terrigal, Island Point, Port Owen and Salisbury and was finally named Port Douglas in honour of the former Premier of Queensland John
Douglas.
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