The Pub Route
Discover the Watering Holes of the West
Mounds, craters and depressions locate the natural Native Dog Springs site. The name may be an echo of the long Aboriginal tribal use of the area indicated by the scatter of artefacts.
A deep artesian bore was sunk there in the 1880s which provided water for the Cobb & Co stop-over. It seems the Irish liked this stretch of road. In 1869, a publican with the very Dickensian name Jeremiah Flanagan opened a hotel which survived only thirteen years. He moved on to deal in less intoxicating liquids when he later became a dairyman in Bourke.
Map displays historical hotel markers (radius shown) and pub locations. Find other locations along the route to read more.
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