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About 23km north of Roxburgh there is a monument commemorating the many unknown miners who perished in the winter snow storms and floods of July and August 1863. Further up the creek above the road, is the site of the former settlement of Chamonix, named after the French alpine resort. Chamonix flourished briefly during the…
Most of the very early 1860s mining evidence of the Teviot district has now long gone – destroyed by land cultivation. During the dredging boom of the late 1890s to early 1900s period, gold dredges worked the Clutha River from the present Roxburgh Dam site to below Millers Flat. Dredge number peaked to 30 briefly…
The Lonely Graves near Milllers Flat Follow on down the road from Millers Flat on the true left of the Clutha River, and at 11 km you will come to the site of Horseshoe Bend Diggings. There is little sign of the village now, but the Lonely Graves just further on, are well known and…
The town lies on the junction of SH 1 (Christchurch to Dunedin) and SH 85 (The Pigroot) which was an early route to Central Otago. The journey inland was anything but easy for the early goldminers. At Dead Horse Pinch, near the Pigroot summit (45km from Palmerston), is a roadside plaque which commemorates the hardships…
(formerly known as The Dunstan) – was named after the nearby Dunstan Mountains, and was the town at the centre of the Dunstan Goldfields rush of 1862. Today, Clyde is overshadowed by the Clyde Dam hydro-electricity scheme. Stone and wooden buildings, dating back to the 1860s, line the streets of this historic town. Oliver’s Restaurant…
(once known as Manuherikia) – In the town centre you will find the 1879 Alexandra Courthouse (now a cafe), and the museum has a comprehensive collection of old mining relics and photographs. Two leaflets are available describing viewing and walking tours in Alexandra and its immediate district which include many historical sites. These can be…
Just 29km beyond Naseby, past the sluiced cliffs and high heaped tailings of the Kyeburn Diggings, you will find the Danseys Pass Hotel. The Pass Hotel was built in 1863 and for a time was the centre of all activities in the district. The present stone building was plastered in the late 1950s with the…
(First known as Parkers and later as Hogburn) – has a distinctly historic quality. The rawness of the sluice-scarred hills exposed in the former goldmining days has now been softened by the spread of wilding trees. Inquire at the Naseby Information Centre (03 444 9961 or 03 444 9990) about walks and mountain bike riding…
Originally known as Rough Ridge Just north out of Oturehua, off Reef Road, a short walk takes you to the Golden Progress quartz mine with the only poppet head still standing in Otago. Above a 61m deep shaft, the 14m high structure supports wheels over which once ran ropes to hoist gold-bearing ore to the…
St Bathans began as a boom town known as Dunstan Creek in 1863. In 1864 some 2,000 miners lived in and around the general locality of St Bathans. St Bathans is today a little rural town, with two surviving operating facilities – its pub and the Post Office. Time has stood still and it takes…
