CROMWELL was originally known as The Junction, and is now a modern town, redeveloped because of the Clyde Dam project and Lake Dunstan, which started to fill in 1992. In the Mall, the Cromwell Museum displays gold relics while down at the lakeside, part of the original commercial centre, Old Cromwell Town, has been painstakingly recreated stone by stone, and is now a very attractive historic precinct.

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