Flagstaff Hill, Port Douglas
Feeding goats at Port Douglas, taken around 1912 [John Oxley Library neg. 128163]
Flagstaff Hill was originally known as 'Billy Goat Hill' in the early days as goats were very prevalent in the district.
Glenville Pike refers to them in his history of Port Douglas saying they:
"... were a wonderful asset to wage earners, teamsters, and settlers, supplying good healthy milk and meat, being clean animals free from disease and unaffected by cattle tick. Of course as goats are browsers, they are very destructive if allowed to roam. The fact that goats have for long been removed from Port Douglas and fire controls exercised is the reason why the hill, once almost bare, is now thickly timbered and Port Douglas is a haven of wonderful shady trees, palms, and exotically tropical blooms and foliage. In the early days a flag staff was erected on the hill ... and when the Harbour Master sighted a ship approaching, he raised a flag as a signal to citizens that a vessel was due in port."
Port of Promise, Glenville Pike, Mareeba, Pinevale Publications, 1986
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