In the early years of the colony, boatmen and others on Mangrove Creek were notorious for being in ‘a state of insubordination’ from the production and sale of illicit spirits. For many years the locals had petitioned for a liquor license, which was repeatedly refused. So ‘Hawkesbury juice’ continued to be produced at secret bush distilleries scattered around and within the tributaries of Mangrove Creek.
Eventually a license was granted to Samuel Taylor of Popran Creek. The inn built by Edward Kelly in 1840 was - ‘A large stone house, with front and back verandahs, standing on a flat below a clump of mangroves, at the entrance of a small creek’
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