Shantytown
West Coast Historical & Mechanical Society's Gold-mining Museum
Shantytown
is located about 45
minutes drive from Lake Brunner. It is a replica gold mining town, located close
to an original gold rush site and town, at Rutherglen. Many of the buildings are
original, saved from old towns around the West Coast. As an example of this, the
church built in 1866, is the last surviving building from Notown which in those
days had a population of 9000 people. Like many other boom towns around the West
Coast, it died as fast as it grew, once the gold was panned out.
Shantytown
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