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The Conversation: Revisiting Waialua Through Oral Histories

Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 10:49 p.m.

Today we spotlight the history of the Oahu North Shore town of Waialua. The first sugarcane plantation started there in 1865, but it wasn’t a success until decades later. Castle and Cooke bought the plantation in 1898 and built a new mill, a railway system, water storage and irrigation . By 1991, the Waialua Sugar Mill produced 8% of the sugar in Hawaii. Guests include Kim-Hee Kanoe Wong , oral historian and instructor for the North Shore Ethnographic Field School, UH Professor Ty Kāwika Tengan