White Swan Reservoir
WHITE SWAN HOTEL 1904 White Swan Reservoir Evening Echo (Ballarat, Vic.: 1914 - 1918), Friday 31 December 1915, page 4 FAMOUS OLD HOUSE CLOSED. ON EVE OF DIAMOND JUBILEE: THE WHITE SWAN HOTEL. If it was all allowed to live a year and a day longer the White Swan Hotel, situated in the Daylesford Road, on the verge of the Creswick State Forest, would have celebrated its diamond jubilee. This picturesque old inn was opened on New Year's Day, 59 years ago to-morrow, and during that long period the names of only two licensees have appeared over the door, the late Mr. Ritchie who opened it and who died 18 years ago, and his daughter, Miss Lottie Ritchie, the present licensee, who succeeded him. Father and daughter became inseparably associated with the old house, and they imparted to it much of their own personality, and a very kindly, lovable personality it was. The White Swan seemed to radiate hospitality, not the hospitality that is associated with roystering , rec