Cobblestones Museum
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Cobblestones Museum is a regional history museum in Greytown
, New Zealand
. The museum is located at site of the original Cobb and Co
coaching stables. The museum contains several buildings recognised as historic by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust
, these include:
Greytown, New Zealand
Greytown or Te Hupenui, population 2,001 , is a town in the Wellington region of New Zealand. It lies in the Wairarapa, in the lower North Island...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. The museum is located at site of the original Cobb and Co
Cobb & Co. (New Zealand)
Cobb and Co is the name of a company that operated a fleet of stagecoaches in Australia in the late 19th century. Cobb & Co themselves did not operate in New Zealand officially but their name was used by many private stage coach operators.-History:...
coaching stables. The museum contains several buildings recognised as historic by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust
New Zealand Historic Places Trust
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust is a non-profit trust that advocates for the protection of ancestral sites and heritage buildings in New Zealand...
, these include:
- a colonial cottage (built c.1867),
- Wairarapa's first Public Hospital in Greytown (built 1875),
- Wairarapa's first Methodist church (built 1865),
- the single-teacher Mangapakeha country school building which opened in 1902
- the Cobb and Co Stables and
- the Donald Woolshed (built 1858), Wairarapa's first purpose built woolshed.