Nelson Tasman Settlement Support
A Partnership between Department of Labour and Nelson City Council
Local heritage
Founders Heritage Park
Founders Heritage Park is a replica historic village containing many of the old historic buildings and artefacts of Nelson. Nelsonians created this historic townscape featuring real and replica buildings, much as they were in colonial days of the 19th century.
Founders Heritage Park
87 Atawhai Drive
Nelson
Open daily, 10am – 4.30pm.
www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/founders-heritage-park
Broadgreen Historic House
Broadgreen Historic House is fully furnished with period furniture and household goods offering a glimpse inside a comfortable middle class colonial residence of the mid-1800. It is easy to imagine the family and their servants returning at any moment to the parlour, the nursery, the kitchen and the smoking room. One of the oldest quilts in New Zealand is one of the items in the extensive textile collection.
www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/broadgreen-historic-house
Isel House
The somewhat stately home of watchmaker Thomas Marsden and wife Mary is found in Isel Park on the main road in Stoke. Marsden came from Derbyshire in 1810 to Nelson first setting up in business in Selwyn Place then moved to Isel, at that time a property of 930 acres, after six years in Nelson.
www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/isel-house
Heritage destinations
Centuries of Māori occupation and 160 years of European settlement mean there’s plenty to interest the history buff.
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