HAMILTON EAST
Hamilton East, which is also known as ‘Irishtown’, is one of the oldest suburbs of Zealand and is a few suburbs to have a street grid plan. Most of the streets were named after the figures of the New Zealand wars – In the year 1877, Hamilton Eat merged with Hamilton west. In 2000, 321 houses were added in the Sherwood Park by Grasshopper East Ltd. and Creditworthy Properties Ltd as a part of Ruakura Experiment Farm, preserving the belt of redwood trees.
Hamilton Gardens
Hamilton Gardens, is a famous visitor spot located along the banks of the Waikato River. It has a spread of about 58 hectares with about 1.3 million visitors each year. They were developed from the 1980s into stages, with paradise, productive, cultivar and landscape collections. Some attractive paradise collection here are Indian char bagh garden, an American modernist garden, the a Chinese scholar’s garden, an English flower garden, an Italian Renaissance and a Japanese garden of contemplation garden.
Memorial Park
This park was created initially in the remembrance of the soldiers of the First World War and it was further renovated as a memory of Spitfire air-force memory and Second World War memory. This is the place where the militants initially landed in 1986. During 2017, as a memorization of war horses which were there in the first world war – memorial of a war horse in bronze was unveiled here.
Steele Park
Steel Park was called Sydney Square and later it was named after the famous militant William Steele and is located at the center of Hamilton East. It is a place which was used for social gathering by the settlers and currently used as a spot for social and cultural events and sometimes spots too. One could find a lot of oak trees here planted during the 1889 – silver jubilee of militia settlers.
Odd fellows Hall
Independent Order of Oddfellows was built in 1874 by Edward Pearson near to the Steele Park which is now a housing the Cook bar. It was used as a factory from 1884 by the family who built this building From about 1884 it was used as a factory by the family who had built it a decade earlier.
Graham Island
Te Moutere O Koipikau Pā once stood on the island. The island is about 0.2 ha and is separated from the main river bank south of Hayes Paddock by about 5 m of shallow water. Most of the island is covered in raspberry, with alder and silver and golden wattle as the main trees.
Former Waikato County Council office
The former Waikato County Council The office is a Category B listing and was opened in 1910 and is on the corner of Clyde Street. This place is currently used by travel agents and you ca find a change done to the building. It is protected by a Category B listing in Hamilton City’s District Plan.. The old building was leased to the Ministry of Agriculture. After 1989, the new building was used by Waikato District Council and then by Hill Laboratories until 2017. Since 2020 it has been renovated as Hills Village apartments.