Ngāti Koroki Kahukura and Ngāti Hauā are the iwi who hold mana whenua over the Cambridge and Leamington areas.  

Quizzes and activities inspired by the Cambridge Museum collection. Great to do with whanau and friends at home and in the classroom.

An index of men in the Third Waikato Militia

It was not until 1975 that the Cambridge Borough Council organised a team to compile a list of Cambridge Historic Places and a Tree Register. New Zealand Historic Places Trust listed most of the 'A' list and some of the 'Bs' under the Historic Places Trust Act 1993. Now, Waipa District Council has most of the Cambridge buildings and places protected in their District Plan.

Members of the Cambridge Historical Society receive regular newsletters filled with interesting articles on the history of Cambridge, local buildings, businesses and personalities. Here is a selection.

When the 1913 Waterfront Strike began the Farmer's Union and the media encouraged Cambridge farmers and businesses to help break the strike. A total of 150 Cambridge men enrolled as 'special constables'.

'Cambridge Over the Decades' is a series of articles written in 1999 that traced the growth of Cambridge as recorded in the "Cambridge Edition" newspaper.

Waipa District Council administers and manages 10 Lawn Cemeteries, including Hautapu, and now has an online cemetery database to assist people searching for plot locations of deceased friends and relatives in Waipa cemeteries.

Our Cambridge Collection has changing exhibitions about Cambridge.  Much of our collection is in storage to ensure its preservation for future generations.

These brief biographies provide fascinating glimpses into the lives of some of the people living in and around Cambridge between the 1860s and early 1900s.

The farming districts around Cambridge have always been very important to the development of the town. Initially the 50 acre soldier allotments of 1864 were to be a barrier between the Maori King Country and the city of Auckland.

Talk a walk and discover more about the history of Cambridge and the surrounds with these printer-friendly historic guides.

Explore stores of the soldiers who travelled to or from the Cambridge area between the Waikato War in the 1860s until World War II.

Wherever you are, try some creative challenges with your whaanau and learn about our amazing collections online.

The first local body in the district was the Cambridge Road Board in 1868, whose immediate duty was to open up road communication with Hamilton. From then until 1890 the foundation of the present system of roads was laid down.

Photographs from the 1880s to the present day provide a visual record of the changing people and places in Cambridge and surrounding districts. We are in the process of digitizing our Collections.

School Registers for Cambridge and districts are an ideal way of tracing the movements of families. New Zealand does not keep census records and these school rolls show when a pupil arrived at a school, where they came from, when they left and where they went to. Most Registers also show a birth date for the pupil.

The Museum Archive includes copies of the Waikato Advocate, Waikato Independent, Cambridge Independent, Cambridge Edition and Cambridge News.

Discover more about the people living in the Cambridge area in the early 1900s using this alphabetical index of ratepayers.

From 1988 to 1995 Eris Parker researched and wrote many articles in the Cambridge Independent newspaper.

Explore stories that highlight diverse women’s experiences as they have made positive changes for themselves, their whānau, and their communities.

Poems about Cambridge have appeared in Cambridge newspapers for nearly a century and some are repeated here.