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Quick facts for kids Doo Town Tasmania
Doo Town on Pirates Bay
Population	230 (?)
LGA(s)	Tasman Council

Doo Town is a Tasmanian holiday village within the locality of Eaglehawk Neck, near Port Arthur, where the house names contain “doo”.

History

Located 79 km southeast of Hobart, Doo Town was established in the 1830s as an unnamed timber station which eventually developed into a shack community. In 1935 a Hobart architect, Eric Round, placed the name plate Doo I 99 on his weekend shack. A neighbor, Charles Gibson, responded with a plate reading Doo Me then Bill Eldrige with Doo Us. Eric Round later renamed his shack Xanadoo.

The trend caught on and most of the homes have a plate that includes the name Doo.

Doo-Little

House names

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Interestingly, the list does not yet contain the names Doo Hast, Baby Shark or Scooby-Doo.

The one non-conforming house has a plate that reads Medhurst.

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