Inside Courthouse Cossack
Cossack Courthouse, built in 1895, is made of local stone and bricks bought to the port as ballast. The roof rises in stages to a clerestory which adds scale to the building. Cossack Courthouse was completed after Cossack had begun declining as a pearl shell base port in favour of Broome, and now contains the Social History Museum. Cossack never recovered prosperity and this is one of a handful of permanent buildings in the town.
Inside Courthouse Cossack
Cossack Courthouse, built in 1895, is made of local stone and bricks bought to the port as ballast. The roof rises in stages to a clerestory which adds scale to the building. Cossack Courthouse was completed after Cossack had begun declining as a pearl shell base port in favour of Broome, and now contains the Social History Museum. Cossack never recovered prosperity and this is one of a handful of permanent buildings in the town