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Arrowtown

The gold town on the Arrow: its Chinese settlement on Bush Creek, and eighteen names on its war memorial.

Early photograph of a Chinese man in a cap and long coat standing with a stick beside a low hut of boards and sacking, bare trees and a garden plot behind
A resident of the Arrowtown Chinese settlement beside his hut. Lakes District Museum EL2181.

Stories

  • Story · Gold Discoveries and the Gold Industry

    The Chinese settlement at Arrowtown

    About ten huts, a long house and two stores stood along Bush Creek, worked by men who took on the ground the first rush had abandoned.

  • Story · Growth & Community

    Arrowtown at war, 1914 to 1918

    Arrowtown borough had 308 people at the 1916 census, and eighteen names went onto its war memorial.

  • Story · Changing Times

    The district at war, 1939 to 1945

    A town of eight hundred, one petrol coupon a month, and a peace that turned it into a resort.

In the Courier index

Magazine articles in Issue 114, 2025

Magazine articles in Issue 111, 2024

Magazine articles in Issue 110, 2023

  • Cotters Arrowtown, p. 25 The Mary Cotter Tree and family history by Tony Hanning
  • Mining Arrowtown, p. 21 Arrow Quartz Reef and Criterion Mining Company by Marion Borrell

Magazine articles in Issue 109, 2023

Magazine articles in Issue 106, 2021

Magazine articles in Issue 98, Summer 2017

  • Arrowtown Goal, p. 4 Restoration by Wakatipu Heritage Trust 2017 brief account
  • Arrowtown’s Parks, p. 22 Part 1 by Taylor Reed and Rita Teele - Algie, Marshall and O’Callaghan Parks, Buckingham and Wilcox Greens

Magazine articles in Issue 97, Winter 2017

  • Arrowtown in 1930s, p. 27 Arrowtown Remembered from the 1930s, by Jack Reid reprinted from Issue 77, 2006
  • Arrowtown Trees, p. 19 The Missing Tree on Buckingham St, by Rita L Teele et al

Magazine articles in Issue 96, Summer 2016

  • Arrowtown Cemetery, p. 25 Article: Charles Eckhardt, Arrowtown miner, barber and tobacconist - and his headstone by Marion Borrell and Roger Grant
  • Cemetery Arrowtown, p. 25 Article: Charles Eckhardt, Arrowtown miner, barber and tobacconist - and his headstone by Marion Borrell and Roger Grant

Magazine articles in Issue 95, Winter 2016

  • Arrowtown early plans, p. 3 Masters of all they surveyed by Rita Teele and Anne Maguire - Charles Shanks, Richard Millett, John Connell
  • Dramatic Society, Arrowtown, p. 28 Calendar talk by Marion Borrell: Arrowtown Dramatic Society 1897. Also Algie family

Magazine articles in Issue 94, Summer 2015

Magazine articles in Issue 93, Winter 2015

Magazine articles in Issue 92, Summer 2014

Magazine articles in Issue 91, Winter 2014

Magazine articles in Issue 90, Spring 2013

Magazine articles in Issue 87, Winter 2012

  • Arrowtown, p. 10 Talk: New Orleans Hotel, Arrowtown 1901 by Marion Borrell at 2012 calendar launch
  • Arrowtown, p. 8 Talk: Buckingham St in 1905 by Malcolm Boote at launch of 2012 calendar

Magazine articles in Issue 84, 2010

  • Catholic Church Arrowtown, p. 32 Article: Saint Mary (MacKillop) of the Cross - on her canonisation. By Margaret Hyland
  • Churches, Arrowtown, p. 10 Article: the Flying Church - Former Millers Flat Presbyterian church moved in Arrowtown, by Brian Bayley
  • Churches, Arrowtown, p. 32 Article: Saint Mary (MacKillop) of the Cross - on her canonisation. By Margaret Hyland

Magazine articles in Issue 83, 2010

  • Churches, Arrowtown, p. 24 Article: Memorial stained glass windows in St Paul's Anglican Church, Arrowtown, by Rita Teele & Rupert Iles

Magazine articles in Issue 81, 2009

Magazine articles in Issue 79, 2008

  • Arrowtown cottages, p. 4 Six cottages - information from current owners prepared for Society excursion

Magazine articles in Issue 77, Summer 2007

  • Arrowtown, p. 6 Arrowtown Remembered. Notes for a talk to QHS by Jack Reid, former Arrowtown Mayor and descendant of pioneer local family
  • Arrowtown School, p. 14 First schools in the Wakatipu established in a rush. By Danny Knudson.
  • Mayor, Arrowtown, p. 6 Arrowtown Remembered. Notes for a talk to QHS by Jack Reid, former Arrowtown Mayor and descendant of pioneer local family

Magazine articles in Issue 74, 2005

  • Arrowtown, p. 22 Stones Directory 1937: Arrowtown, Arthurs Point, Glenorchy

Magazine articles in Issue 67, 2001

  • Arrowtown, p. 21 Jim Childerstone re his familty’s (Grandpa William B.O. Ferguson) link to the doctors house near Arrowtown and strange events

Magazine articles in Issue 63, 1999

  • Arrowtown, p. 22 Arrowtown - The reasons for settling and the effects.' An essay by Ben Andrew which won the W.G Rees Memorial Prize 1998.

Magazine articles in Issue 54, 1995

  • Arrowtown, p. 20 The Snow Storm of 1939 by John Newman of Arrowtown

Magazine articles in Issue 44, 1990

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