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Vulcan Hotel, St Bathans

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Vulcan Hotel,  St Bathans

The Vulcan (formerly Ballarat) Hotel at St Bathans was built of mud brick in 1882, two decades after the district’s first gold rush but while mining was still taking place.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago places – Manuherikia, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22825/vulcan-hotel-st-bathans (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 19 August 2009, updated 1 July 2015.