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  • Firth Tower Church
  • Gordon School
  • Laundry & Dairy
  • Mark Madill Shed
  • Settler’s Cottage
  • The Barn
  • The Homestead
  • The Jail
  • The Tower
Laundry & Dairy

The Dairy & Laundry is one of many front rooms of the homestead. It's furnished in the style of the late 1880's when McCasws began their residence

Dairy and Laundry


The Dairy and Laundry is one of many front rooms of the homestead. It's furnished in the style of the late 1880s when McCaw's began their residence.

The Barn

Here you will find exhibits of the “drowned” Hora Hora Dam, Matamata’s doctors, dentists and hospitals, the history of movie going in Matamata and Waharoa, the Kaimai NAC disaster. And More

The Barn


Here you will find exhibits of the “drowned” Hora Hora Dam, Matamata’s doctors, dentists and hospitals, the history of movie-going in Matamata and Waharoa, the Kaimai NAC disaster and late 19th and early to mid-20th century wars. There are interesting displays of horse transport, delivery and passenger vehicles.

Settler’s Cottage

Moved from ‘behind the butchers shop’ in Waharoa, this cottage is funished as a workman’s home of the 1900s.

Settler's Cottage


Moved from ‘behind the butcher's shop’ in Waharoa, this cottage is funished as a workman’s home of the 1900s.

Mark Madill Shed

Mark Madill Shed houses exhibits of tractors, tree felling and blacksmithing, the geology of the region, early recreational interests and the milk and cream industry and factories.

Mark Madill Shed


Mark Madill Shed houses exhibits of tractors, tree felling and blacksmithing, the geology of the region, early recreational interests and the milk and cream industry and factories.

The Jail

This jail was built in 1892 in Karangahake and moved to Matamata in 1920 where it served until 1950.

The Jail


This jail was built in 1892 in Karangahake and moved to Matamata in 1920 where it served until 1950.

  1. Gordon School
  2. Firth Tower Church
  3. The Tower
  4. The Homestead
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