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George Hodder's liquor, tobacco and cigar shop was located on Park Street near Cumberland in the mid 1880s. He must have done a roaring business when thousands of hard drinking railway navvies, sailors, prospectors and mine workers came to Port Arthur for their entertainment. The railway was completed by 1886, and the mining prospects began to decline by the decade's end. The boom years were winding down and business began to dry up. By 1888 Hodder's distinctive store was gone.