New Zealand - Upper Hutt - Looking down Princes Street from Main Street - 1989 Upper Hutt - An area originally known as Orongomai - The first residents of the area were Māori of the Ngai Tara iwi. - Various other iwi controlled the area in the years before 1840. - Richard Barton, who settled at Trentham in 1841 in the area now known as Trentham Memorial Park, was the first European resident. - Barton subdivided his land and set aside a large area that was turned into parkland. - James Brown settled in the area that became the Upper Hutt town in 1848. -------------------- Image source: Ian D Scott Photographer https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/186 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 New Zealand License Image Capture: Dec 2018 ©2021 Google https://www.google.com/maps/@-41.1244679,175.0700325,3a,74.6y,187.78h,93.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s87IQ0HAVJ93DtBygmXOumw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656