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• Aniseed Valley Copper

  The discovery of an outcrop of copper ore in the upper Aniseed Valley by Fred Stratford in 1881 led to the development of an industry that saw a...

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• Immigration Stories

  Immigration Stories  These stories were produced in response to the Appo Hocton (Feb-Apr 2010) exhibition at the Nelson Provincial Museum, as part of a Museum education programme on the immigration experience. The...

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• Newman Brothers

  Running a transport service in the days when unformed roads wormed their ways through virgin bush up steep hillsides and across rivers and mountain creeks tested man and...

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• Stranding of the Hawea

  Imagine the drama there would be today if a ship ran aground on Rocks Road. Hawea, 1886, aground in Nelson The Union Company steamer, Hawea aground on the...

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• The scandalous Chieftain

  In the days when Nelson was more like a remote English village than a real New Zealand town, the settlers got pretty excited over the arrival of a...

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