More Info →Settler Cottage, Apiti

Description

This two roomed settlers cottage was probably built c 1910. It has vertical planking and is built with of pit-sawn timber. The cottage consists of a sleeping room and an eating room. Cooking was done on an outside stove. It was restored by the Apiti Historical Society in the 1980s. It was lived in for many years by a man whose name was not recorded - it was given to the society after his death by Charlie McKenzie. It was brought into the village from Ridge Road with the help of the Pohangina County Council.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

Public Photograph Collection Poh 38

Date

1981

Digitisation ID

2014P_Poh38_007535

Held In

Coolstore