John Pott (died 1645), 17th-century Colonial Governor of Virginia at the Jamestown settlement
Studying with John Potts, one of irelands greatest pipers at the time, he came into contact with other famous pipers such as Leo Rowsome and Breandán Breathnach and Johnny Doran.
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The headland was once known as Potts Point, named after overseer John Potts employed by William Pettigrew who lived on the land from the year 1880 to 1890, when it was used to transport timber between Cotton Tree and Mooloolah River by bullock.
In 1974, while attending the annual meeting of The Endocrine Society in Chicago, Illinois, USA, bone scientists Louis Avioli, Claude Arnaud, Norman Bell, William Peck, John Potts and Lawrence Raisz, along with Shirley Hohl, met at the Drake Hotel.
Named for early settler John Potts, the community was founded as a dry town in 1872.