Te Waimate Mission

The first inland station of the Church Missionary Society in New Zealand, founded at Waimate North in 1830 on land bought from Ngāpuhi as a model farm to teach Māori European farming. Its Mission House, built in 1832 by a Māori workforce for missionary George Clarke, is the second-oldest standing building in the country. Charles Darwin visited in 1835, chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi here in 1840, and in 1845 it was the British army base in the Northern War against Hōne Heke and Te Ruki Kawiti.

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1830 CE mainstream
Church Missionary Society establishes the station and model farm on land bought from Ngāpuhi source
1832 CE mainstream
Mission House built for George Clarke's family by a Māori workforce from local materials source
1835 CE mainstream
Charles Darwin visits on 23-24 December while HMS Beagle is in the Bay of Islands source
1840 CE mainstream
Second signing of the Treaty of Waitangi by northern chiefs on 10 February source
1845 CE mainstream
British army headquarters in the Northern War; wounded from the attack on Ōhaeawai pā are treated here source
1961 CE mainstream
New Zealand Historic Places Trust buys the Mission House and restores it source

Where

35.3166° S, 173.8763° E

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