The Cobblestones Regional Early Settlers museum was established on the historic site of the original Cobb & Co coaching stables. Cobb & Co provided a mail and passenger service between Wellington and the Wairarapa from 1866.
The Museum's name comes from the well-preserved cobblestone courtyard at the museum entrance. Historic buildings relocated to the museum site include a colonial cottage built c.1867, Wairarapa's first Public Hospital in Greytown (1875), Wairarapa's first Methodist church (1865), the single-teacher Mangapakeha country school building which opened in 1902 and the Donald Woolshed (1858) which was Wairarapa's first purpose built woolshed.
The museum site also features vintage farm machinery, stationery engines, horsedrawn vehicles and the ‘Pride of the Valley’ Cobb & Co Coach built in 1906 and used twice a day as the Martinborough to Featherston railway link until 1919 when motorbuses replaced it.
Cobblestones Museum is administered by a Trust Board whose members are appointed by Wairarapa Councils, Greytown Heritage Trust, the Wairarapa Horsedrawn Vehicle Society, Friends of Cobblestones and Service Clubs.
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