Black and white laminated photocopy.
Printed below photograph - Foxton in 1868. The beginnings of today’s town are evident. Buildings have appeared along Main Street and the Avenue Road to its right. Stewart’s plan is being followed. Prominent in Main Street is the Presbyterian Church, built by Nye in 1867 and still standing in 1984. The shoreline buildings and Cook’s wharf remain substantially as before and in the foreground is pioneer settler Amos Burr’s house. Photograph courtesy Mrs H. H. Podmore
Early Foxton viewed from Ferry Hill (looking north) in 1868. Printed below the photograph is the following:- “Foxton in 1868. The beginnings of today’s town are evident. Buildings have appeared along Main Street and the Avenue Road to its right. Stewart’s plan is being followed. Prominent in Main Street is the Presbyterian Church, built by Nye in 1867 and still standing in 1984. The shoreline buildings and Cook’s wharf remain substantially as before and in the foreground is pioneer settler Amos Burr’s house.”
Black and white laminated photocopy
Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Foxton Historical Society”
