Board of Directors
Antya Miller, President
Evelyn Kaneshige, Recording Secretary
Boyd Ready, Treasurer & Local Historian
Julie Patacchia, Director & Heritage Exhibit Chair
David Robichaux, Director & Land Use Consultant
Margarat Sagaysay, Director & Membership/Programs Chair
George Tanabe, PhD, Director & Japanese Culture Historian
Cy Yamanoha, Director & Marketing/Communications Chair
Kumu Keith Awai, Director Emeritus
Staff: Karen Benally, PhD
Front Row L-R: Julie Patacchia, Evelyn Kaneshige, Antya Miller, Margaret Sagaysay
Back Row: Boyd Ready, Cy Yamanoha, George Tanabe, Jr.
Not Shown: David Robichaux
About Us
The Haleʻiwa Waialua Historical Society, established in 2017 and incorporated in Hawaiʻi, is a 501 ( c) 3 nonprofit. Our organization is the result of key leaders wanting to focus only on historic preservation and the establishment of a heritage center/local history museum.
Program Activities:
I. Continue historical research and cataloguing of documents and artifacts acquired.
II. Continue to provide historical tours in Haleʻiwa Town and later Waialua Town and agriculture tours.
III. Install two history signs of Waialua in the Waialua Bandstand Park funded by the HTA.
IV. Start restoration of the Waialua Agriculture Company’s Office Building, where our new office is now located. The goal is to renovate the building for use as a community center with multiple activities and programs, a heritage center, and appropriate tenants providing needed services and goods.
IV. Start fundraising to buy the building from Dole Food Company.
Our Mission
" To preserve and promote the history of Hale'iwa and the Waialua Moku." This includes collecting, researching, preserving and promoting information or items of historical interest for a future local history museum.
The Society is a 501 c 3 nonprofit incorporated in the state of Hawaii.
History and Programs
of the
Hale‘iwa Waialua Historical Society
The Hale‘iwa Waialua Historical Society (Society), established in 2017 and incorporated in Hawai‘i, is a 501 ( c) 3 nonprofit. Our organization is the result of key leaders wanting to focus only on historic preservation and the establishment of a heritage center/local history museum.
Our mission is “To preserve and promote the history of Hale‘iwa and the Waialua Moku” including collecting, researching, preserving, and promoting information or items of historical interest for a future heritage center.
Program Activities:
I. Continue historical research and cataloguing of documents and artifacts acquired.
II. Continue to provide historical tours in Hale‘iwa and Waialua Towns and later agriculture tours.
III. Continue writing monthly North Shore News history articles. (Sign up for free color copies at NSNHaleiwa@gmail.com)
IV. Installed two history signs of Waialua in the Waialua Bandstand Park funded by the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority.
V. Started restoration of the Waialua Sugar Company’s Office Building, where our new office is now located. The goal is to renovate the building for use as a community center with multiple activities and programs, a heritage center, and appropriate tenants providing needed services and goods.
VI. Start Capital Fundraising Campaign to hopefully buy the building from Dole Food Company. and restore it.
VII. Research placing the Halstead Sugar Mill Stack on the State Register of Historic Places.
The Historical Society has started the process of researching what it will take to preserve the building. We completed an Historic Structure Report done by an historic preservation architectural firm, Fung Associates. Also completed was a Community Engagement process of three community workshops to solicit ideas for Adaptive Reuse or how to use the building into the future for the community. Both were funded through grants from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Atherton Family Foundation. The attendees voted to have a community and heritage center.