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The town's historic two-storey wooden hotel, established in 1841 and the oldest continuously licensed hotel in
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711:Devon North
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104:Coordinates
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43:Port Albert
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1263:Tamboritha
1258:Stradbroke
1177:Myrtlebank
1157:Montgomery
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889:Bushy Park
874:Blackwarry
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754:Loch Sport
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142:Population
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237:Australia
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831:Locality
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789:Seaspray
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759:Longford
749:Heyfield
673:Boisdale
668:Alberton
504:24 March
444:(1973).
382:See also
319:Tasmania
273:Turnbull
233:Victoria
164:Location
48:Victoria
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1293:Toolome
1228:Sargood
1210:Reynard
1152:Monomak
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1087:Koorool
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346:fishers
245:Morwell
177:Morwell
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