Thu 31 Mar 1932, Page 6.
John Dunn transferred his license from the Inn at No Good Damper, to Dandenong, in December of 1847.
By August 1848 he was Postmaster at Dandenong, under contract, operating to and from Melbourne and Dandenong Bridge, via Brighton, once a week.
By 1851 his licensing renewal was being listed as Squatter's Rest, Dandenong. I lost any trace of him, through licensing court sessions and being local postmaster by the early 1850s.
I believe he was born about 1806, died 9th of November 1862, having married Anne Everist in 1846, and had at least one daughter, Helen Dunn, born 1848, in Dandenong, who died on 9th of June 1925.
The Dandenong Journal, Thu 31 Mar 1932, Page 6.
Dunn’s Hotel was built in the late
40’s, on land at the rear of the Bridge
Hotel, and stood just on the rise up
Thomas street, and faced both Foster
street and the Main street. It was a
primitive shanty of four rooms, to
which additions were made from time
to time, and supplied the wants of
the timber getters and travellers in
the earliest times.
There was a nice garden in front
of the house, down the slope of the
hill to Foster street, but it was often
flooded, when the creek came over its
banks, which was the reason of its
being built on the hillside and not on
the corner. There is not now a sign
of the old place.
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