Upper Hutt Blockhouse
Blockhouse, fort in Upper Hutt, New ZealandThe Upper Hutt Blockhouse also known as the Wallaceville Blockhouse is a 19th-century American-style military blockhouse situated in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. One of very few such blockhouses built in New Zealand, it is preserved as a Category I historic place. It was built in late 1860 as part of a larger Stockade and was one of two Blockhouses and Stockades built in the Hutt Valley that year. It was occupied by the Hutt Battalion of the Wellington Militia from December 1860 to May 1861 without coming under hostile attack.
Read article
Top Questions
AI generatedMore questions
Nearby Places
Upper Hutt
City in Wellington Region, New Zealand
Trentham, New Zealand
Suburb of Upper Hutt City, New Zealand
Upper Hutt College
School
Heretaunga College
State co-educational high school
Wallaceville
Suburb of Upper Hutt, New Zealand
Elderslea
Suburb of Upper Hutt City, New Zealand
St John's Anglican Church, Trentham
Church in New Zealand
Golder Cottage
House in Upper Hutt, New Zealand