As well as being a relic of early interest in asbestos mining, Asbestos Hut is associated with Annie and Henry Chaffey who lived in the hut for nearly 40 years.
Located in Clarence Reserve, Black Spur Slab Hut was built around 1927 for shepherds’ accommodation during tupping.
Built in 1928, Bluff Dump Hut is a remnant of the pack-track days of the Clarence Reserve. The hut serves as a physical reminder of how isolated station life was in the Clarence Valley.
Booth's Cottage is one of the few remaining huts from the depression gold mining era in the Howard area. The cottage is situated in Glenhope Scenic Reserve.
Cecil Kings Hut in Kahurangi National Park is an excellent example of the backcountry timber slab huts once commonly built by settlers and miners from the late-1800s and into the 1900s.
Downies Hut in the Matakitaki Valley appears to be the second oldest wooden hut on DOC-managed land in the Nelson/Marlborough Conservancy.
Little is known about Horse Flat Hut in Clarence Reserve. Old musterers have said that it was used as a rabbiters’ hut.
You can visit the Molesworth Cob Homestead, which was the first homestead on what was to become New Zealand’s largest pastoral run.
In New Zealand, the name Molesworth Station evokes the nation's high-country farming identity. Learn more about the station's history and present management of the area as a working farm, conservation site and recreation destination.
Old Willows Hut is one of a group of 1920s mustering huts remaining on the Clarence Reserve.
Ship Cove was Captain James Cook’s favourite New Zealand base during his three voyages of exploration.
From the 1860s until 1968 access between Kaikoura and the Warden and Tytler Runs (now known as the Clarence Reserve) was via a pack track over the Seaward Kaikoura Range. Of the several huts built to provide accommodation along the track only Tentpoles and Bluff Dump still stand.
Whariwharangi Hut was built as a farmhouse in about 1896 by John Handcock. Learn about the hut and the area's early farming history in this section.
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