Tauranga Historical Society

In colonial times, for safety reasons, settlers often constructed a kitchen separate from the main homestead.  This was certainly the case i...

  Excavation at  Ō tūmoetai   pā on Levers Road, 2005. Image courtesy of Tauranga Museum. In 2005, archaeologists made a significant discove...

From Tauranga City Library’s archives A monthly blog about interesting items in our collection Matakana Island Timber Mill Te Ao Mārama - Ta...

Part I  Alexander (Sandy) Turner sailed from Ireland to Auckland with his family on the immigrant ship Carisbrooke Castle in 1875 . Travelli...

  Two maps of M ō titi.  Neither is contemporaneous with Brain’s work on the island, but the coloured image shows the settlement pattern of ...