Westoe Rangitikei, New Zealand 🌍


Westoe Rangitikei (#nz42)

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Date: 1864
Sir William Fox's first homestead at Westoe was located on the river flood plain, and he produced a watercolour painting of it dated 1864 showing that amongst the homestead buildings was a windmill. When he built his second house on a terrace above the river flood level around a decade later, the homestead on the plain went out of use.
Crop from William Fox's watercolour of his first homestead at Westoe, Rangitikei, 1864
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