Arrowtown

Arrowtown Post Office

52 Buckingham Street

03 442 1885

http://www.museumqueenstown.co.nz


The Arrowtown Post Office has a fantastic range of stationery, postage and packing supplies and collectable stamps.

The gift shop inside has a great selection of affordable gift ideas including children’s books and toys as well as lovely New Zealand landscape photography books. 

It’s the perfect place to browse, buy, package and send that perfect gift!

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.1

Arrowtown is one of the fastest growing towns in New Zealand:
1948---------120 people
1989------850 people
2015----2600 people
2021-----3900 people

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.2

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.3

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.4

Millbrook Resort is named after Mill Farm on which it sits. Mill farm was established by the Butel family who came from Normandy.

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Arrowtown Random Fact No.5

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.6

Arrowtown has one of the best preserved collection of goldfields heritage buildings in New Zealand.

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