Macetown
Sign in to savethumb|Macetown in the early 1920s Macetown is an historic gold mining settlement in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is now uninhabited but has become a tourist attraction.
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thumb|Macetown in the early 1920s Macetown is an historic gold mining settlement in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is now uninhabited but has become a tourist attraction.
==History== thumb|Chinese miners and George Neur in Macetown During the Otago gold rush Tom Hall came across a group of Chinese prospectors at the Tipperary reef. Hall recognised the potential of the reef and pegged it. A settlement soon formed near the reef known as Twelve Mile, after the distance of the settlement from Arrowtown. The settlement eventually came to be known as Macetown after John and Henry Mace.
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