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Post by NZBC on May 24, 2007 22:01:00 GMT 12
Skippers Road, Shotover Valley, QUEENSTOWN
The proposed Wong Gong's Terrace Historic Area, adjacent to the Skippers Road in the Shotover Valley near Queenstown, provides an insight into the life of a gardener and storekeeper, who provided a meeting place for Chinese miners in an isolated goldfields community. It provides a representative, largely unmodified archaeological example of a Chinese store, market gardens and associated structures in an isolated area of the nineteenth century Otago goldfields. Storekeepers provided a vital support for the Chinese mining community, as a source of Chinese commodities as well as a place to meet. The site provides a spectacular view of the extensive sluicings nearby, emphasising the goldmining context of the Shotover Valley. Wong Gong's Terrace Historic Area provides an example of a vital and locally recognised Chinese presence in the Shotover Valley that is largely un-represented.
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Post by NZBC on May 24, 2007 22:01:49 GMT 12
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