Karangahake

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The Karangahake Gorge was once the site of gold fever. There's a little train you can take and an historic walkway.
tour.thepeninsula.co.nz/karangahake.htm







Karangahake
Once a flourishing town because of Gold mining started in this area in 1875. The Post Office opened in 1885. By 1901 it merited a Police Station and by 1905, an Ambulance Service. {At its height around 1911 it had several churches, pubs, and about ten hairdressers} After 1915 the gold begain to run out and the town shrank dramatically, many abandoned buildings burnt down or were physically shifted to farming communities on the Hauraki plains. By 1921 the Post Office, Police & Ambulance stations were gone. By the 1940s there were fewer than a dozen structures left, only it's location on the road to Waihi made the "town" able to survive. By 1970 there were only 100 people left although the population has started to climb since the 1990s and new houses have been built. The ruins of the gold-crushing station and the Edwardian School building provide a focus for tourism.
www.ohinemuri.org.nz/journal/44/karangahake_township.ht...
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Coordinates:  37°25'6"S 175°43'6"E

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  • The historic walkway goes through the old railway tunnel . The steam train actually starts at Waikino ,( a few kilometres East ) and goes to Waihi.
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