Post by NZBC on May 24, 2007 21:58:33 GMT 12
Butchers Gully, ALEXANDRA
Register Number: 7547
Registration Type: Historic Area
Region: Otago Region
Date Registered: 25/6/04
City/District Council: Central Otago District Council
Other Names: Lye Bows Market Garden
Status Explanation: Registration BD 2004/06/21
Brief History: Bow's Historic Area was one of the sites identified for registration as part of the Chinese Site Registration Project in 2001.
Lye Bow's Historic Area consists of the surviving evidence of the orchard and surrounding wall with an adjacent area of alluvial gold workings and associated features, including a representative length of the Alexandra Borough Water Race, and the probable site of Lye Bow's house.
Lye Bow's market garden, orchard and associated workings represent the interrelationship of goldmining and support industries in Otago. It also provides an important illustration of the transition from gold miner to settled orchardist, a relatively rare example of such long standing operation run by a Chinese immigrant in Otago.
The proposed Lye Bow's Historic Area provides archaeological and historical insight into the life of a Chinese market gardener and orchardist who operated a commercial concern for over forty years in the arid conditions of Butchers Gully. The associated gold workings and remaining section of water race, later sold to the local Council by Lye Bow for town supply, provide essential context emphasising the interrelationship of mining, supply services and water in this spectacular landscape. The nature of the surviving historic evidence means that this site tells the story of Lye Bow's life, and has the potential to provide further understanding of that story through archaeological study and interpretation.
www.historic.org.nz/Register/ListingDetail.asp?RID=7547&rm=Full&sm=
Register Number: 7547
Registration Type: Historic Area
Region: Otago Region
Date Registered: 25/6/04
City/District Council: Central Otago District Council
Other Names: Lye Bows Market Garden
Status Explanation: Registration BD 2004/06/21
Brief History: Bow's Historic Area was one of the sites identified for registration as part of the Chinese Site Registration Project in 2001.
Lye Bow's Historic Area consists of the surviving evidence of the orchard and surrounding wall with an adjacent area of alluvial gold workings and associated features, including a representative length of the Alexandra Borough Water Race, and the probable site of Lye Bow's house.
Lye Bow's market garden, orchard and associated workings represent the interrelationship of goldmining and support industries in Otago. It also provides an important illustration of the transition from gold miner to settled orchardist, a relatively rare example of such long standing operation run by a Chinese immigrant in Otago.
The proposed Lye Bow's Historic Area provides archaeological and historical insight into the life of a Chinese market gardener and orchardist who operated a commercial concern for over forty years in the arid conditions of Butchers Gully. The associated gold workings and remaining section of water race, later sold to the local Council by Lye Bow for town supply, provide essential context emphasising the interrelationship of mining, supply services and water in this spectacular landscape. The nature of the surviving historic evidence means that this site tells the story of Lye Bow's life, and has the potential to provide further understanding of that story through archaeological study and interpretation.
www.historic.org.nz/Register/ListingDetail.asp?RID=7547&rm=Full&sm=