Preston’s Sequoias Give Redwood Its Name – 1967
Near the corner of Main North and Prestons Roads, stands a 29.8m tall Sequoia (sequiodendron giganteum) in silent testimony of one of the area’s first families. Thomas Herbert Preston and his wife Elizabeth arrived aboard the ‘Cornwall’, the 18th Canterbury Association ship. They settled down in an area known as the ‘Styx’ – this term …
