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Please contact Edna Brady P.O. Box 41, Mallacoota, 3892

HISTORY OF LAND

SETTLEMENT AND

 NATIONAL PARKS

The first land settlement at Mallacoota was in about 1846 when Captain Stevenson landed by boat and farmed near Captain’s Point. Most settlement following was on the east side, as there were no roads between Melbourne and Mallacoota. Farms and gold mines and many camps followed around the lake and the hotel at Lakeview was established by John Augustus Dorron, born Port Royal, Nova Scotia, 1830. the original cemetery was established very early and contains some of the pioneers. The hotel licence was moved to present day Mallacoota in 1922.