18. Former Crystal Hotel
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This former hotel was built in 1888 with Charles Fisher as first licensee. Fisher was killed by a rock in 1889 thrown by a patron who had been ejected from the hotel.
The hotel was delicensed in 1924, along with a number of other Broken Hill hotels that were closed by the License Reduction Board: the board was tasked with reducing the number of publican's licenses in New South Wales.
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