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Port Douglas was established in 1877 as a port for the Hodgkinson goldfield and Mossman was founded in the mid-1880s with the subdivision of land, located south of the Mossman River, owned by Daniel Hart and Thomas Wilson. The Exchange Hotel stands on part of Portion 72, selected by Wilson in 1879.
The former Mossman Shire Hall and Douglas Shire Council Chambers, constructed 1936–1937, is a substantial civic building that reflects the importance of the sugar industry to north Queensland during the interwar period and is associated with the ascendancy of Mossman as a commercial and administrative centre and the decline of Port Douglas as an early regional centre.
The Carpentarian of Easter Eve 1911 reported that the facilities lost included the churches at Port Douglas and Mossman, the Port Douglas house belonging to the Bishopric Endowment Fund (used as a rectory), a church hall at Mossman that Taffs had erected at his own expense, and a small church at Mount Molloy. A flood two weeks after the cyclone ...
The Port Douglas Community Hall houses the Port Douglas Library, 11–29 Mowbray Street, operated by the Douglas Shire Council. [30] The Library opened in 2010. [31] Another branch library is located in Mossman. [32] The Port Douglas branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at the CWA Hall at 8 Blake Street. [33]
The Mossman - Port Douglas parish of the Roman Catholic Vicariate Apostolic of Queensland (now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns) was established in 1877. [12] Mossman River Post Office opened by 1895 (a receiving office had been open from 1883) and was renamed Mossman in 1899. [13] Mossman Central Sugar Mill commenced crushing on 23 August ...
The Shire of Douglas is a local government area in Far North Queensland.It is located on the coast north of the city of Cairns.The shire, administered from the town of Mossman, covers an area of 2,428 square kilometres (937.5 sq mi), [2] and existed as a local government entity from 1880 until 2008, when it was amalgamated with the City of Cairns to become the Cairns Region.
Port Douglas was established in 1877 as an alternative to Cairns as a service port to the Hodgkinson goldfield that had been proclaimed on 15 June 1876, but with the construction of the Cairns-Kuranda railway line 1882–1891, Port Douglas gradually declined as a town and port. The Mossman district, although initially taken up as homestead ...
Mossman Gorge is a rural locality in the Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census, Mossman Gorge had a population of 248 people. [1] The locality takes its name from the valley Mossman Gorge created by the Mossman River through the Daintree National Park to the west of the locality (in Syndicate and Shannonvale). The ...