Clendon House
Address: 14 Parnell Street, Rāwene, 0470
Hours: May to Oct: Sat & Sun from 10am to 4pm
Nov to Apr: Fri, Sat & Sun from 10am to 5pm
(Group Bookings are available on closed days by prior appointment)
Website: www.clendonhouse.co.nz
Tel: 09 405 7874
Built in the 1860s, Clendon House was the home of Captain James Reddy Clendon and Jane Takotowi Clendon. Their personal documents and photographs became the foundation of a collection that later became the ‘Clendon Papers’ incorporated into the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 2023.
Visit the house of adventurer, trader and entrepreneur, James Reddy Clendon – and trader, book-keeping whizz and for many years solo mum, Jane Takowi Clendon. Their personal documents and photographs became the foundation of a collection that later became the ‘Clendon Papers’ incorporated into the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 2023. Our talented storytellers will immerse you in the time of early colonial life when Te Tai Tokerau Northland was still the centre of power and politics in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Clendon - witness to the Treaty of Waitangi, magistrate, and Aotearoa New Zealand’s first US Consul – made and lost several fortunes. He died in 1872, leaving his second wife, Jane, with huge debts and a young family to feed. Jane, the daughter of Dennis Cochrane and Takatowai Te Whata, she managed to trade her way out of the mire and keep her family and possessions together.
Māngungu Mission
Address: 107 Motukiore Road, Horeke, 0475
Hours: May to Nov: Closed
Dec to Apr: Sat, Sun & Mon from 10am to 4pm
(Group Bookings are available on closed days by prior appointment)
Website: www.mangungumission.co.nz
Tel: 09 405 9734
This Wesleyan Mission Station was established at Māngungu on the spectacular Hokianga harbour in 1828. A few years later it saw the largest Te Tiriti o Waitangi signing.
Where trade met religion - shipyards, timber merchants and a Mission Station jostled for position at the top end of the Hokianga harbour.
The 1830s Mission House is the only surviving part of the original waterfront settlement.
The largest signing of New Zealand’s founding document, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, took place at the Māngungu Mission on the 12th of February 1840. Imagine a foreshore lined with waka as hundreds gathered at Māngungu to debate the Treaty. Inside the house, the collection includes the table on which the Treaty signing took place.
