Arrowtown
Arrowtown
Arrowtown is a historic gold mining town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. Arrowtown is located on the banks of the Arrow River approximately 5 km from State Highway 6. There is also road access directly to Queenstown via the Shotover Gorge and a third route via the picturesque Lake Hayes.
During the high point of the gold rush the population of Arrowtown rose to over
7,000 and became the center of a larger municipality, which covered the new
settlements of Macetown, Skippers and Bullendale (today only ghost towns).
Arrowtown was constituted as a borough in 1867 and became part of the
Queenstown-Lakes District in the local government reorganization of 1989.
The town reached a population low of less than 200 people in the 1960s before
gaining popularity again. According to the 2006 New Zealand census, the
usually-resident population of Arrowtown was 2,151, an 27.1% increase since
2001. The town has seen considerable growth and construction, but it falls
under strict appearance covenants applied by the local authority that aim to
preserve the appearance of the town. There are many well preserved buildings
used by European and Chinese/Shinto Japanese immigrants dating from the gold
mining days of the town.
Text from Wikipedia
Goldfield Art
tractor
wagon
steam engine
race and water wheel
immigrant cottage
from the assay office
Photos from Gold mining days
