Historic Arrowtown Chinese Settlement
Restored huts of gold-rush Chinese miners beside a creek, with an original stone merchant store.
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The guide to the Historic Arrowtown Chinese Settlement, near Queenstown, follows the Chinese miners Otago invited to rework its goldfields after eighteen sixty-five, and the men who lived in the schist huts along Bush Creek. It turns on Ah Lum, the storekeeper, banker and interpreter who bought the little stone shop down Buckingham Street in nineteen-oh-nine. Start among the huts, then walk down to the store.
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