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    • Camps >
      • Hakalau Upper Camp
      • Hakalau Lower Camp
      • Wailea Spanish Camp
      • Wailea Store Camp AKA Wailea Mill Camp
      • Chin Chuck Genjiro Camp
      • Chin Chuck Stable Camp
      • Honohina Upper Camp
      • Honohina Lower Camp
      • Honohina Mauka and Nanue Camps
      • Kamaee Camps - all three
      • Pake (Ah Ling) and Kaminaka Camps
      • Kahuku Camp
      • Yamagata Camp
    • Schools >
      • Hakalau School
      • John M. Ross School
    • Churches >
      • Hakalau Jodo Mission >
        • The Early Years
        • Years Between World Wars
        • The Mamiya Years
        • The Later Years
      • Honohina Hongwanji
    • Cemeteries
    • Hangouts and Memories >
      • Hakalau Park and School Complex
      • H. Fujii Store and Bakery
      • Jimmy's Hi-Way Cafe
      • Nishimoto Store
      • Nishiyama Bus Service and Garage
    • The Voice of Hakalau (Newspaper)
    • Work >
      • Hakalau Mill & Other Buildings
      • Wailea Milling Company: The Independent Homestead Mill
    • Hamakua Roads in the 19th Century: Firsthand Accounts
    • Bridges >
      • New Highway Bridges Hakalau 1950-1953
    • The Railroad
    • 1946 Tsunami
  • Today
    • Issues Today
    • Hakalau Farmers Market
    • Hakalau Jodo Mission Today
    • 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 Community Development Plan & Action Committee
    • Ninole Development (Mile Marker 19)

The Hakalau Mill and Related Buildings

Prior to 1920

This is the period before the two concrete warehouses were built to accommodate railroad transportation of cane.
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Construction of the Smoke Stack in Progress, sometime between 1924 and 1928

After the Concrete Warehouses were Built (1920),  Before the Tsunami (April 1, 1946)


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1928 photo showing the mill, flumes, the railroad bridge and, Mill Camp in the background--all destroyed in 1946. Photo courtesy of Lyman Museum.
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January 23, 1925. Photo courtesy of the Lyman Museum.

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1942 View of Hakalau Mill taken from the train. Photo courtesy of Karyn and Joe Roark
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Prior to 1946 Tsunami. Railroad trestle and flume above the mill site. Photo courtesy of the Lyman Museum.

Tsunami of April 1, 1946

The Waves
​Photos from the Waichi Ouye Collection, courtesy of his family.
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The Cleanup
​Photos courtesy of Akiko Masuda, photographer unknown.
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After the Tsunami of April 30, 1946 

The New Mill
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Mill built 1946-1947. Photo courtesy of the Lyman Museum
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Photo Courtesy of the Lyman Museum
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Hakalau Gulch Mill Site - Bulk Sugar Bin, built 1948
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Mill Yard Crane, 1950s
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Hakalau Gulch Mill Site - Mill Office (early 1950s)
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Hakalau Gulch Mill Site - Smoke Stack, built sometime between 1924 and 1928. This picture taken after the tsunami but before construction of the highway bridge.