The town has many beautiful trees and a register is kept to help protect them. With cycling becoming increasingly popular the Woodside Rail Trail is a regular spot for visitors. The population development of Greyton as well as related information and services (weather, Wikipedia, Google, images). There were few jobs, families were large and people became impoverished. Greytown was marketed as "The fruit bowl of the Wairarapa" when fruit was grown on the west of the town with orchards like Westhaven and Pinehaven. It has embarked on an ambitious plan to restore all the listed buildings under conservation plans and now ranks as the top thing to see in Greytown on Trip Advisor. The various sized properties were made available to buyers of any race, nationality or religion at affordable prices. Marthinus Theunissen himself became a very wealthy man in Stellenbosch, owning Vergelegen at one time. He established a freehold agricultural village on Weltevreden in 1854, keeping two small portions for himself and bequeathing the remainder of the farm as commonage. This page was last edited on 12 October 2020, at 05:43. [citation needed], Greytown is a popular weekend and holiday destination. There are over 30 sports clubs in Greytown which come under the umbrella of Greytown Community Sport and Leisure Society,[15] a volunteer organization. [3] It is affiliated with the Ngāti Kahungunu hapū of Ngāti Kahukuranui o Kahungunu Kauiti, Ngāti Meroiti and Ngāti Moe, and the Rangitāne hapū of Ngāti Meroiti, Ngāti Moe, Ngāti Tauiao and Ngāti Tūkoko. The Greytown Cricket Club celebrated 150yr anniversary in 2017. Opposite them, a very old flat-roofed building that was used for the first Anglican church services, was made into a Moravian school. Greytown passengers are now serviced by Woodside Railway Station on the Wairarapa Line. In the 1890s sessions were held at Pāpāwai, and were reported in Huia Tangata Kotahi, a Māori-language newspaper published by Īhāia Hūtana from 1893 to 1895. From the 1910s Pāpāwai fell into disrepair, and little was done until the 1960s when conservation work was carried out on the carved figures. The 5 km rail trail winds through quiet farmland, native plantings and heritage trees to Woodside Station, with great views of the Tararua Ranges. Many people left to make their fortunes elsewhere. Here they lived together in peace, harmony and religious tolerance.[3]. In 2014 it opened a new exhibition building which showcases Greytown and Wairarapa history. The projects were expected to create 19.8 full time jobs.[8]. In the late 19th century the wharenui was an important site of Te Kotahitanga, the Māori parliament movement. Before Greyton was established in 1854, the verdant plains and forested ravines of the area were home to the Hassequas khoikhoi tribe who had their kraals near the Gobos river, which they named after their ancestral chief. In 1854 Herbert Vigne founded a freehold agricultural village on his farm Weltevreden. [11] The main street has a number of boutique, antique stores and cafés. In the late 1980s the marae was fully restored, and is again in full use by the community. Many of these families are still living there and remain part of the Greyton community. There are also two old churches, some of the earliest cottages built between 1854 and 1860 in Vigne Lane and at the end of Vlei Street, as well as an old shepherd's cottage built prior to 1840, which is now incorporated into "The Old Potter's Inn" building on Greyton’s Main Road. Cobblestones Museum, a regional history museum, on 167 Main Street, contains six Historic Places Trust category II buildings. He did not stay long because he could not resolve the constant disputes with his neighbours at Boschmanskloof and Genadendal over boundaries and straying cattle. In the 1860s Herbert married a young girl of British stock named Elizabeth Belshaw – 27 years his junior. He established a freehold agricultural village on Weltevreden in 1854, keeping two small portions for himself and bequeathing the remainder of the farm as commonage. The entrance to the town was not originally where it is today for the road came directly from Genadendal over the hill, and past Boschmanskloof, entering the town at the intersection of Main Road and Ds Botha Street. [9], Heritage buildings are recorded by the Greytown Heritage Trust. There the De Villiers family built a trading store in 1860, as well as several communion rooms used by Dutch Reformed Church members who came to town for communion once a month. In 1846 a wealthy Englishman, Herbert Vigne, bought Weltevreden. Coloured families who had lived together for a century with neighbours of all races, were forced to sell their homes and farmland. [7], In October 2020, the Government committed $2,179,654 from the Provincial Growth Fund to upgrade Ngāi Tumapuhia a Rangi ki Okautete, Motuwairaka, Pāpāwai, Kohunui, Hurunui o Rangi and Te Oreore marae. Some densely populated areas have been classified as "traditional" (and not as "urban") by Statistics South Africa and therefore are not considered here. Following Herbert Vigne’s death in 1895, Greyton, like many other Overberg towns, lived through harsh economic times that characterized the turn of the century. Greytown Beautification Society has done a lot to keep the spirit alive for many years, especially Stella Bull Park and the park bench in the park dedicated to her, which states, "Only God can make a Tree". Their many thousand heads of cattle and sheep were the reason why Ensign Schriver of the Castle of Good Hope was sent here in the late 1600s to barter with their head man, Captain Stoffel Koekson. The Greytown Heritage Trust was formed with the primary object of encouraging and facilitating the preservation of historic buildings in and around Greytown, with particular attention being given to the Greytown Historic Heritage Precinct as defined in the Wairarapa Combined District Plan. Greyton is a small town in the Overberg area in the Western Cape, South Africa. It is now the town library. [6], The Māori name for Greytown is Te Hupenui, the literal translation of which is "the big snot", better translated as "the fluid that comes out of your nose at a tangi or funeral". Some left the town for good. The Tree Advisory Group to the Greytown Community Board actively works to preserve trees and the historic tree register is in the process of being updated in collaboration with the Greytown Community Board and South Wairarapa District Council. Within fifty years, a dedicated community of people had built houses, established businesses and smallholdings, opened a school and built two churches in the town. He kept two small portions for himself and bequeathed the remainder of the farm to the proprietors of the erven as commonage, naming it "GREYTON", after Sir George Grey, the then Governor of the Cape. This was the only town in the Cape in which such land with full title deeds, water rights and grazing rights was for sale to anyone. It became a Borough in 1878 and a ward of the South Wairarapa District Council in 1989. Greytown was first settled on 27 March 1854 under the Small Farms Association Settlement Scheme and was named after Governor Sir George Grey, who arranged for the land to be bought from local Māori. Pāpāwai Marae is located east of Greytown. [12] The official camping ground next to the soldiers' memorial park is very popular during long weekends and holidays. The aggregation of sub places to "reasonable" urban areas was done by »City Population«. It has been the powerhouse of the Wairarapa competition, with all three Senior teams winning their competitions in the 2005–2006 season, and almost repeating the feat (two out of three) in 2006–2007. In 1793, Koekson's tribal lands were given to the young Dutchman Marthinus Theunissen, who built a homestead (no longer standing) on his farm Weltevreden. This formed part of Greytown's submission for the most beautiful small town in New Zealand. Greytown School is a state full primary (Year 1–8) school with 348 students as of March 2020. Greyton owes much of its charm to the fact that its Cape Vernacular architectural heritage has remained largely intact. But the long narrow plots that characterized the layout of the town continued to provide a food source for families, as well as a place to keep livestock for domestic use. In the 1870s, when the Public Works Department announced plans that the Wairarapa Line railway between Featherston and Masterton was not going to pass through Greytown, local protests were successful in attaining approval for a branch line from the Wairarapa Line at Woodside, which opened on 14 May 1880. The Wellington Gliding Club [16] operates from the Greytown Soaring Centre in Papawai, approximately 4 km east of Greytown on Tilsons Road. The town is proud of its history, claiming to have the most complete main street of Victorian architecture in the country, and of being the first planned inland town.
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