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• Orchards of the Nelson region

  *Stoke Orchards* Stoke once had orchards everywhere, with hawthorn or occasionally gorse or macrocarpa hedges on the boundaries. The population was sparse, so everyone knew everyone. Geoffrey Gates who lived...

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• Nelson Hospital

  The development of health services Nelson’s first hospital was a lean-to attached to the barracks built on Piki Mai/ Church Hill in the 1840s. Various private cottage hospitals provided rudimentary medical...

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• Hans Busch 'A Great Miser'

  *German settlement* In 1841 the New Zealand Company dispatched an expedition to establish its second New Zealand settlement, to be named Nelson. The Company was very successful in attracting settlers and, ambitious...

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• Antonio Wett

  Background Antonio Wett was an early resident of Nelson, arriving there in about 1866.  In the following 44 years, until his death in 1910, he married, had a family...

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• Sunnyside and the Fells

  The house called Sunnyside, located in Nelson's "dress circle", and completed in 1854, was built for Alfred Fell, a prominent, mid-19th century Nelson citizen. The house forms the basis...

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