When Did Shantytown Start?

Shantytown attracted large crowds from its inception in 1971. “The last couple of years have definitely been trying for West Coast tourism ventures and Shantytown has felt many of the impacts.

When was shantytown built?

The tourist attraction Shantytown, a reconstruction of a gold-mining town, was built as a community effort in 1969–70. Different organisations built separate buildings. The Greymouth Jaycees took great pride in building the Golden Nugget Hotel – initially the only two-storey building in Shantytown.

When did Hoovervilles start and end?

This Hooverville was established on lands owned by the Seattle Port Commission and lasted ten years from its establishment in 1931 until its final destruction in 1941.