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|   Puketapu Feud Memorial Cross, Bell Block, New Plymouth
in Maori Historic Sites This is a memorial to Rawiri Waiaua and his tribesmen who died here on the 3rd of August 1854 while they were upholding the mana of the government. posted by:  Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 6/26/2010 last visited: 11/4/2010 |
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| Mahoetahi memorial cross, Bell Block-Waitara, New Zealand in Maori Historic Sites This is a memorial to the brave chiefs of Waikato, of Wetini Taiporutu and his comrades who fell close to this spot in the battle fought on the 6th November 1860. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 11/29/2010 last visited: 11/8/2010 |
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|  Flight House, New Plymouth, New Zealand
in New Zealand Historic Places Register number 7086, this Category II residence, one of the oldest remaining in New Plymouth, was built in 1868 for Josiah and Ann Flight and their family, who arrived in New Plymouth in 1842 on the Timandra. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 10/7/2010 last visited: 12/20/2009 |
 view galleryNE6.9 km |  Waitara Lions Club Time Capsule, Waitara, New Zealand
in Time Capsules Waitara Lions Club Time Capsule laid 1966 to commemorate the Club's first 25 years. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 11/29/2010 last visited: 11/8/2010 |
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|  Tupare Homestead. New Plymouth. New Zealand.
in Homesteads One of New Zealand's finest historic homesteads stands in a beautifully restored garden on the outskirts of New Plymouth. The elegant homestead was designed by the renowned James Chapman-Taylor. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 7/27/2010 last visited: 7/17/2010 |
 view galleryW7.6 km | Entrance Gates, New Plymouth Boys High School, New Zealand in New Zealand Historic Places Built 1922-23 the New Plymouth Boys High School memorial gateway honours the ex-pupils who lost their lives in the Great War. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 8/21/2010 last visited: 3/16/2010 |
 view galleryW8.2 km | The Gables. New Plymouth. New Zealand. in New Zealand Historic Places The Gables is the sole survivor of four colonial hospitals built for Governor Sir George Grey, to provide medical care for Maori and Pakeha in the 1840s. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 2/25/2010 last visited: 11/18/2007 |
 view galleryW8.2 km | Band Rotunda, Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, New Zealand in New Zealand Historic Places Built in 1887, the band rotunda is believed to be one of the oldest in New Zealand. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 8/21/2010 last visited: 9/6/2010 |
 view galleryW8.5 km | Boer War Memorial, New Plymouth, New Zealand in New Zealand Historic Places Register number 845, this Category II Historic Place was built in 1911 to honour those who died in the South African (Boer) War. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 8/21/2010 last visited: 9/20/2009 |
 view galleryW8.7 km | St Mary's Anglican Church, New Plymouth, New Zealand in New Zealand Historic Places In October 1842 Bishop Selwyn established an Anglican presence in Taranaki, obtaining a Crown grant for the land on which New Plymouth's St Mary’s church now stands. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 8/7/2010 last visited: 8/11/2010 |
 view galleryW8.9 km | Cenotaph, New Plymouth, New Zealand in New Zealand Historic Places Register number 885, this Category II Historic Place was built in 1924 to honour those who died in the Great War. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 8/21/2010 last visited: 4/25/2010 |
 view galleryW9 km | Devonport Flats, New Plymouth, New Zealand in New Zealand Historic Places The Category II status Devonport Flats are on the Historic Places Register as they were designed by renown local architect Frank Messenger and are an early example of concrete construction. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 8/18/2010 last visited: 9/11/2010 |
 view galleryW10.8 km | Whiteley Mission House, New Plymouth, New Zealand in New Zealand Historic Places The Whiteley Mission House was built in 1854 as a school for Maori girls in New Plymouth.
The nearby Chapel was built by Zaccheus Wells in 1869 and gifted to the Methodist Maori Mission in 1940. posted by: Phronimos location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 8/13/2010 last visited: 9/11/2010 |
 view gallerySW23 km |  Backpacker's Murder at Lucy's Gully. Taranaki. New Zealand.
in Infamous Crime Scenes A beautiful historic bush-covered gully in Egmont National Park named after Lucy Stevens (a.k.a. Ruhira Matekai) who was born in the Gully around 1820. In 2005 the beauty was marred by the horrible discovery of a hitchhikers body in Lucy's Gully. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 6/18/2010 last visited: 11/3/2010 |
 view galleryW23.3 km |  The Wreck of SS. Gairloch. Taranaki. New Zealand.
in Shipwrecks This rusted crescent of iron, the Gairloch, rising from the rocky foreshore at Weld Rd has been a Taranaki landmark for 100 years.
posted by: Punga and Paua location: New Zealand date approved: 4/16/2008 last visited: 12/31/2010 |
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|  Shakespeare Bust. Stratford. Taranaki. New Zealand.
in William Shakespeare In the Taranaki town of Stratford there is a bronze bust of William Shakespeare standing in the town centre.
Stratford is one of New Zealand’s special places, named after William Shakespeare’s birthplace. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 2/26/2009 last visited: 8/30/2008 |
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|  Forgotten World Highway - Village of Douglas. North Island. New Zealand.
in National Scenic Byways Douglas is a tiny historic village at the western end of the scenic heritage trail through Taranaki called the Forgotten World Highway. posted by: Punga and Paua location: New Zealand date approved: 7/1/2008 last visited: 11/18/2008 |
 view gallerySW53.1 km |  Peter Snell Statue - Opunake, New Zealand
in Olympic Memorabilia In Opunake there is a statue of Sir Peter George Snell, KNZM, OBE, KBE (born 17 December 1938 in Opunake), a former New Zealand athlete who won three gold medals in the Olympics. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 10/6/2013 last visited: 10/6/2013 |
 view galleryNE55.2 km |  Te Mahoe Mission site, Mokau. North Is. New Zealand.
in Signs of History A sign on Te Mahoe Rd near Mokau points to the site of the Te Mahoe Mission Station. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 10/25/2014 last visited: 10/25/2014 |
 view gallerySE96.6 km | St Joseph’s Convent and Church - Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand in New Zealand Historic Places St. Joseph's Convent was built in 1892 as the base for the order of the Sisters of Compassion, which was founded at the site that same year by Sister Mary Joseph Aubert (1835-1926) to care ‘solely for the Maori and the poor’. posted by: Trail Blaisers location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 1/2/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE104.4 km | Kawana Flourmill and Waterwheel - Matahiwi, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand in New Zealand Historic Places The Kawana Mill at Matahiwi has the only surviving set of mill machinery dating back to the 1850s in New Zealand. It was the longest-operating mill on the Whanganui River. posted by: Trail Blaisers location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 1/2/2014 last visited: never |
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|  The Last Spike on the Main Trunk Railway. North Island, New Zealand.
in Last of its Kind At Manganuioteao, between National Park and Ohakune, on the Main Trunk Railway line through the North Island, is a marker to commemorate the Last Spike. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 9/23/2009 last visited: 1/6/2011 |
 view galleryE119.4 km |  The Chateau Tongariro - World War II - Whakapapa. New Zealand.
in Field Hospitals The Chateau in Tongariro National Park was used as an asylum hospital and recuperation centre for Returned Servicemen during World War II. posted by: Punga and Paua location: North Island, New Zealand date approved: 11/9/2010 last visited: 3/21/2015 |
 view galleryE119.6 km |  Tongariro National Park. North Is. New Zealand.
in World Heritage Sites Established in 1887, Tongariro was the first national park in New Zealand and the fourth in the world. It is also a dual World Heritage area, a status which recognises the park's important Maori cultural and spiritual associations as well as its outstanding volcanic features. posted by: Punga and Paua location: New Zealand date approved: 8/28/2008 last visited: 11/18/2008 |
 view galleryE122.3 km | Te Porere Redoubt. Central Plateau. North Is. New Zealand. in Maori Historic Sites Te Porere contains the earthworks of a Maori fortification built by the prophet and warrior Te Kooti and is the site of the last major engagement of the New Zealand Wars in October 1869. posted by: Punga and Paua location: New Zealand date approved: 11/23/2008 last visited: 11/23/2008 |
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