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Teviot Woolshed - Otago, South Island in New Zealand

Teviot Woolshed
History & Culture in the Central Otago Region
Unusual attractions - A whopping great woolshed and two lonely graves.

A Whopping Great Woolshed and Two Lonely Graves

The Teviot Woolshed (c. 1870) was believed to have been built out of an old railway station, dismantled and sent out from England. The biggest woolshed in the Southern Hemisphere, the Teviot was 137metres long, 47.3metres wide and could hold 8,000 sheep.-. In 1924 the shed was destroyed by fire and only the stone walls with rounded façade and arched windows remain today.

The Lonely Graves, located at the Horseshoe Bend Diggings on the banks of the Clutha River south of Roxburgh, consist of the graves of ‘Somebody’s Darling’ and William Rigney. The story goes that in 1865 William Rigney discovered the body of a young man on the riverbank following a flood. He arranged an inquest and burial for the unknown miner, erecting a headstone with the words ‘Somebody’s Darling Lies Buried He ... Read More...