WAHIAWA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The town of Wahiawa is located on the Leilehua Plain, between the Waianae and Ko'olau mountain ranges, where the Kaukonahua Stream splits into its North and South Forks. While we don't know much about the early history of the Wahiawa area we do know it is the site of Kukaniloko, the birthing stones, where Hawaiian royalty was traditionally born. We also know that there was a warrior training school that still exists as part of Schofield Barracks Military Reservation.

The first settler to arrive in Wahiawa was Byron Clark who was so impressed with the land that in 1898 he set about securing access to thirteen hundred acres. He wrote to his mainland friends and acquaintances encouraging them to join him in homesteading the Wahiawa area. Among those who responded were Leonard G. Kellogg, Thomas L. Holloway, William P. Thomas, Alfred W. Eames, Carl Pullman, Harry R. Hanna, Thomas H. Gibson, John W. Welte, Emmit C. Rhodes, W. B. McCormick and Edgar Wood. The area was now known as the Wahiawa Colony Tract.