New Zealand Learning Adventures
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Historic Gold Rush Settlements
 

The first gold seeking settlers arrived via treacherous mountain trails from Christchurch or on boats via the violent Tasman Sea and difficult harbours. Most were inexperienced as they were pushed from their homes a world away by terrible poverty and famine. Amidst metres of rain and deadly rivers homes had to be built and gold found to pay for food and services.  Today, many towns are just memories buried deep in regenerating rainforests others are just shadows of their former glory. Action Education Interested groups visit museums, surviving gold towns, ghost towns and old mining areas. Visits help us understand the forces and turmoil that the gold rush settlers endured.  We explore the problems of lawlessness and follow the human industrial development through to their modern settlements of today. Soon we begin to appreciate and understand the rolls, responsibilities and advantages modern communities provide for us today.  Visits need to be accompanied with some knowledge of unique and enthralling stories. See also: Some of the old, once booming gold towns ore now so much different, each is worth visiting ●  Lyell ●  Reefton ●  Ross ●  Murchison ●  Crushing  ●  Kumara ●  Shantytown Settlements of the Zone

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