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New Plymouth was laid out over 550 acres (2.2 km 2), with additional rural sections proposed along the coast beyond Waitara, covering a total of 68,500 acres (274 km 2). By year's end his map of the town showed 2267 sections ready for selection by settlers, with streets, squares, hospitals, schools and parks surrounded by boulevards that ...
The "Architecture Now" magazine presented an itinerary in New Plymouth including heritage buildings and stated: "The city remains the location of some of the oldest surviving architect-designed buildings in New Zealand." One of the first settlers arriving in New Plymouth in 1843 was Frederick Thatcher, a London-trained architect. He came with ...
City in Taranaki, New Zealand New Plymouth Ngāmotu (Māori) City New Plymouth city skyline looking south from the foreshore with Mount Taranaki on the horizon. New Plymouth Show map of Taranaki Region New Plymouth Show map of North Island New Plymouth Show map of New Zealand Coordinates: 39°03′28″S 174°04′27″E / 39.05778°S 174.07417°E / -39.05778; 174.07417 Country New ...
The settlement of the province was organised by the Plymouth Company, a subsidiary of the New Zealand Company which was later absorbed into its parent company. Taranaki was chosen for the settlement by the surveyor Frederic Carrington , and New Plymouth was the only town founded in the country founded through organised settlement that lacked a ...
Hurworth Cottage was the first homestead of Harry Atkinson, an early European settler in New Plymouth who went on to become a four-time Premier of New Zealand.. Hurworth Cottage, the sole surviving home from the 1850s settlement after the Taranaki Wars retains many characteristic Colonial construction features.
The White Hart Hotel is one of the heritage buildings from New Plymouth, registered by Heritage New Zealand as a Category 1 Historic Place. Situated on the corner of Devon Street West and Queen Street, the White Hart Hotel was built of timber in 1886 to replace the original hotel of 1844.
Plymouth (/ ˈ p l ɪ m ə θ / ⓘ PLIM-əth; historically also spelled as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town and county seat of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.Located in Greater Boston, the town holds a place of great prominence in American history, folklore, and culture, and is known as "America's Hometown".
New Plymouth was a colony town, bought and planned before it was settled. It was the combined project of a group of people purportedly dissatisfied with city life in Chicago, who in 1895 formed what they called "The Plymouth Society of Chicago" and William E. Smythe, who was the chairman of the executive committee of the National Irrigation Congress and a famous irrigation promoter.