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Main Street, Foxton, looking south from Ihakara Gardens, c1870. In the foreground two graves are surrounded by picket fences. In the centre of the photograph a train can be viewed com9ing northwards on the track whih runs down the centre of Main Street. A number of men with corses and carts are in the area now known as “The Triangle”. Residential and commercial properties along with a church line both sides of the street.

RESTRICTED PHOTOGRAPH: Harding Collection Alexander Turnbull Library Reference No.85741/2.

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Foxton Historical Society”

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Date
1870

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Tags
1870,
church building,
commercial transport,
fhs museum,
foxton,
foxton streets and roads gardens,
horse and cart horse train railway,
private residence buildings,
public graves building,
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