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Some Battery Flat dates |
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1875 |
Stampede to Karangahake Spur. |
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1876 |
Karangahake Battery. The first battery is erected on Battery Flat. |
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1883 |
Tramway Hotel established. |
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1885 |
First bridge, Hogg’s store opens, self-acting incline built. La Monte furnace erected. Karangahake Post Office opens during 1885. |
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1888 |
Parkes' furnace started. |
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1890 |
Ivanhoe Battery sold for removal to Puriri. |
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1894 |
Tramway Hotel has a handsome verandah along the river frontage. |
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1895 |
Tramway Hotel enlarged by building another storey on it. |
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1896 |
Mr Alf. Shepherd, of the Tramway Hotel, Karangahake, sold that hotel to Mr Bunyard. |
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1897 |
Talisman build General Office and cyanide vat house. Mr A. Bunyard, Tramway Hotel, erects a Lyceum Hall, close to the hotel. |
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1898 |
New Traffic bridge opened. |
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1906 |
Tramway hotel destroyed by fire. |
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1908 |
Talisman vat house enlarged to become the powerhouse. |
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1909 |
Ohinemuri voted Dry. Tramway hotel reduced to boarding house only. |
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1913 |
New truss Traffic bridge. |
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1915 |
Boarding house on hill is removed. |
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1916 |
Fatal Fire at Karangahake. Tramway hotel destroyed. |
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1938 |
Dubbo battery under way. |
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1959 |
Paeroa municipal water supply pipeline and suspension bridge installed. |
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1970? |
“Gold Camp” created. |
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2019 |
New suspension bridge across the Ohinemuri River. |