Arrowtown
Historic gold-rush village of stone shops and miners' cottages beneath an avenue of old trees.
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This guide to Arrowtown, near Queenstown, stands on Buckingham Street in eighteen sixty-seven, the year a young gold-rush town set its residents to work planting an avenue of trees from the other side of the world. It follows the work crew, a Scottish mayor, and an Irish family living on the corner where the library stands now. Best heard beneath the trees on Buckingham Street, near the library corner.
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