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The trees in Arrowtown’s beautiful avenues are Sycamore, Ash, Oak, Elm, and Rowan. The first avenue was planted in 1867.
There has been a fire station on the current site since 1890. The hand drawn hose reel was used until the 1940’s.
The first jail in Arrowtown was simply a log. You were chained up to it. The later stone jail still exists and is in Cardigan Street. It is New Zealand’s 4th oldest jail.
The Maori name for the river is Haihainui which means ‘Big Scratches’.
The discoverer of gold in the Arrow river was a shepherd named Jack Tewa or Maori Jack. He also won the Royal Humane medal for saving a man from drowning in Lake Wakatipu.
Arrowtown has one of the best preserved collection of goldfields heritage buildings in New Zealand.
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