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• Quakers in Nelson - Quakers Acre Cemetery

  The Society of Friends Quakers, from the earliest days in seventeenth century England, hold strongly to the value of peace. When the founder, George Fox, was asked to enlist...

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• The Adamant and the Cospatrick

  The arrival of the first sailing ships, Arrow, Will Watch and Whitby, into Nelson Haven on Sunday 31 October marked the beginning of a remarkable period of history...

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• The Greig Brother's of Dillons Point; Early Settlers of Beaver Station

  Settlers came from all walks of life and all nations when the New Zealand Company[sitetree_link,id=113] began promoting farmlands ripe for the picking in Aotearoa. Two Scottish boys, aged in...

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• Reservoir Creek Richmond

  A history of early European settlement The European colonisation of Nelson (including Waimea East) was conceived and planned by the New Zealand Company[sitetree_link,id=113] in London at the beginning of the...

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• Early Richmond

  It is thought Māori used the Tasman region as a rich food and flax resource from as early as 1350 AD.1 A lack of archaeological evidence suggests there...

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