A few months ago, I posted the story, The city of hidden lagoons: Palmerston (of the north), which explored the watery history of the Manawatu city of Palmerston North, where I grew up. In particular, the post told a little of the story of the long-forgotten Awapuni Lagoon, which once lay in the south-west corner of the city. This post will add to that story, with the history of the Mangaone Stream, which fed into the Manawatu River in the same area of the lagoon. (more…)
November 5, 2011
Food basket to floodway: the story of Awapuni Lagoon and Mangaone Stream
Posted by envirohistorynz under commentary | Tags: Awapuni, Awapuni Lagoon, Changing Days and Changing Ways, Charlotte Warburton, eels, European settlement, Manawatu River, Mangaone Stream, Palmerston North, Rangitane, swamp drainage |[2] Comments
May 25, 2012
Bush adventures in Hokowhitu
Posted by envirohistorynz under commentary | Tags: Charlotte Warburton, children and nature, forest destruction, Hokowhitu, indigenous bush, lagoons, Manawatu, Manawatu River, Palmerston North |Leave a Comment
I grew up in Hokowhitu in the 1970s, not far from the River, but by then there was little sign that anything but the exotic had ever thrived there. (more…)
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