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Story: Waikato region

Settler’s cottage, Hamilton

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Settler’s cottage, Hamilton

Artist John Philemon Backhouse produced this pencil and watercolour image of a military settler’s cottage in Hamilton. It shows the very simple structures that were built at first. In the background is a small church, with a man tending the graveyard.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: A-348-016

by John Philemon Backhouse

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato region – European settlement and population, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/27096/settlers-cottage-hamilton (accessed 23 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 26 May 2010, updated 1 July 2015.