Ngā taonga tuku iho o Waikanae

I 1824 i tae mai tētehi tira o te iwi o Te Āti Awa i Taranaki i runga i te tono o Ngāti Toa. 

Ko tēnei wāhi te wāhi pokapū mō Te Āti Awa ki Waikanae atu i 1849 ki 1886, ki te wā i hūnuku atu tōna iwi ki tētehi wāhi e pātata ana ki te rerewhenua hou.

I 1850, i hangaia tētehi wharenui i raro i te whakahau a Wi Tako Ngatata-i-te-rangi, rangatira o Ngāti Tawhirikura, Ngāti Kura me Ngāti Hāmua, hapū o Te Āti Awa. 

Neke atu i te 100 tau, he tauira whakaatu noa te whare karakia o St Andrews i te pono me te wairua o te hapori o ngā Mihingare o te rohe. 

Ko ‘The gate’, te ‘gateway to heaven’ rānei te whakapākehātanga o Reikōrangi.  I takea mai tēnei kōrero i te haerenga o tētehi pononga ki roto i te riu engari kīhai ia i hoki mai.  I pēnei te whakaaro kua kuhu atu ia i Reikōrangi.

I 1841, i tīmata te ratonga poutāpeta tuatahi mā te huarahi takutai i waenganui i Pōneke me Wanganui i te hunga mau haere i te reta mā raro. 

I 1877, i hangaia e te rangatira, e Wi Parata Te Kakakura te whare karakia o St Luke’s ki Tuku Rākau, i te rori o Te Moana, e pātata ana ki te rori o Greenways kei Waikanae.

Ko Frances Hodgkins(1869-1947) tonu te tino ringa rehe toi o Aotearoa e mōhiotia whānuitia ana, e kaingākaungia ana hoki. 

He mea mira e Archibald Brown (1859-1941) he harakeke i roto i ēnei whare mai i 1905 ki 1930.