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  • Yesterday
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      • John M. Ross School
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      • Churches >
        • Hakalau Jodo Mission
        • Honohina Hongwanji
      • Cemeteries
    • The Voice of Hakalau
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      • Hakalau Mill & Other Buildings
      • Wailea Milling Company
    • Infrastructure and Transportation >
      • 19th Century Hamakua Roads
      • Bridges
      • The Railroad
  • Today
    • Hakalau Farmers Market
    • Hakalau Jodo Mission Today >
      • Obon Festival
      • Memorial Day
      • Celebrations at Hakalau Jodo Mission
    • Honohina Hongwanji Today
    • Hakalau Reunions
    • Wailea Village Historic Preservation Community >
      • Cemetery Stewardship
      • Reviving Hakalau School
      • Senior Luncheons
      • Mochi Pounding
  • Tomorrow
    • Arsenic Remediation
    • Cliff Failures
    • Hāmākua CDP & the CDP Action Committee

Hakalau Upper Camp, aka Up Camp

 Location:  It was close to the Hakalau mill, which was beside Hakalau Bay in the gulch below.  It was also adjacent to a number of buildings related to sugar production and directly above Hakalau Lower Camp and Mamalahoa Hwy.

Camp size: About 60 dwellings and numerous community buildings to support the entire plantation community.  

Time period: The three maps reflect different periods: 1947, the 1920's-30's, and about 1914.  House photos date to the early '50s although homes were built from 1898 to 1946.  Occupant list dates to the early ‘60s.

Also called “Up Camp” it included the manager’s home and houses for most of the supervisors.  Other buildings to support the entire plantation community included a gym, a theater, a pool hall, a social clubhouse, a Jodo Mission, personnel office, Japanese language school and Aikido Hall, a pool hall or Filipino Club House.
The Camp Maps
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1947 hand-drawn map prepared for the plantation.
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Drawn from memory by Mona Ross, daughter of William Ross, Hakalau Store Manager. Reflects the camps circa the 1920's-1930's.
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1914 Hakalau Upper Camp showing Japanese workers homes only. The map was published 5/15/1914 in Hawaii Ichiran by Nekketsu Takei .
Click maps to enlarge
The Houses
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​Click photo to view all camp houses
Hakalau Community Buildings
(Upper Camp)
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Click photo to view all community buildings
Occupant Names


< Click here for Occupant Name List for all houses in this camp (early 1960's)

For the Hakalau Kuleana, our responsibility is to care for the land, the people, and the culture. We are guided by cultural values of YESTERDAY: Engage in collective effort. Look out for each other. Honor hard work. Show respect for those who came before us. Aloha and Mālama `Aina. In 2021, Akiko Masuda added two more values to the list: Consistently show up. Whatever has to be done, jump in and do it!