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So many pleasures to choose from - Arrowtown’s historic streets, or its Great Outdoors.

 

Arrowtown satisfies many sides of your personality. The nature lover, the outdoors adventurer, the museum visitor, the shop browser. The charm of historic Buckingham Street, while savouring a coffee.

 

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LOCAL NUGGETS

Arrowtown Random Fact No.1

The trees in Arrowtown’s beautiful avenues are Sycamore, Ash, Oak, Elm, and Rowan. The first avenue was planted in 1867.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.2

Australia’s first saint, Sister Mary MacKillop visited Arrowtown in 1897 and set up a Catholic School. Part of this school can still be visited today.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.3

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.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.4

They used to sell Morphine in the local drug store. That was back in the goldmining days of course!

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.5

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.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.6

The Maori name for the river is Haihainui which means ‘Big Scratches’.

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