Dillmanstown Taramakau

Image Credits: Dillmanstown and the Taramakau Valley. From the album: The Taramakau Inverted Syphon, Westland, NZ, circa 1912, Westland National Park, by James Ring. Te Papa, Dillmanstown, New Zealand, by Muir & Moodie studio, maker unknown. Te Papa

This is another virtual attraction. Virtually nothing is here. But maybe a few ghosts. Because there was something here, only a century and a bit ago. Dillmanstown was a town of shacks on the Taramakau River, home to hungry miners who never really got rich on gold. Then they left. But they left a little history to explore, plenty on show at the private Kumara museum on the main road there.