Macetown
Abandoned gold-rush settlement with a restored bakehouse, cottage and stamping battery by a river.
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This guide to Macetown, the gold-rush ghost town up the Arrow River from Queenstown and Arrowtown, starts at a small restored bakehouse and the storekeeper who built it. It follows the rush of the eighteen sixties that raised a canvas camp on this terrace, and the mail run that had to cross a river with no bridges. Best heard standing by the bakehouse, looking out across the flat.
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