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• Nelson's Botanical Reserve

  The Botanical Reserve was set aside by the New Zealand Company in 1858 for public use. The area comprises two distinct parts, the playing field on the corner...

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• Nelson's Signal Station and the Time Gun

  Britannia Heights in Nelson was once known as Signal Hill.  The Songer tree, a Sequoiadendron giganteum, now marks the site from which the state of the tide was signalled to incoming vessels and...

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• Brightwater's School for Girls - 1880-1889

  In the late 1870s the population of Brightwater grew very quickly. Schools in the area included Spring Grove School and River Terrace School, but both schools were very overcrowded...

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• Brightwater's School for Boys - 1888-1889

  The brick school  In 1887 Spring Grove School was overcrowded and run down, it was also the only school in the area that educated senior boys. Instead of just...

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• Spring Grove School

  Spring Grove School and the TeeTotal Goats In 1845, when Brightwater was still part of Spring Grove, there were a growing number of pākehā families settling on Section 34,...

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