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Kauai Historical Society
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PHOTOS |
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OVERVIEW |
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At the
Kaua‘i Historical Society, they're bringing
history to life. Their mission is to
collect, preserve, and disseminate the oral,
written and pictorial history of Kaua‘i
County; to protect and preserve historic
sites; and to educate themselves and the
public about the history and cultures of
Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau.
The Society's vast collection, available by
appointment for use, is located in its home
at the centrally located historic Kaua‘i
County Building in Lihu‘e.
The collection includes 12,000-plus
photographs; 3,200 maps; plantation records;
The Garden Island newspaper, 1911 to
present; 25 cabinet drawers of subject
files; 4,500 books; personal papers from
local families and organizations; and the
Guslander Coco Palms Museum collection.
They're digitizing the collection to make it
easier for you to use.
Kaua‘i is visually stunning. From the
crowning coast of the North Shore, where
jungly, green-velvet pinnacles thrust from
sapphire, aquamarine and turquoise seas, to
the sere beaches of the West side, where
spirits leap into the next world, the
landscape of this garden island never ceases
to amaze.
From point A to point Z, The Kaua‘i
Historical Society has information that
brings sites and legends of Kaua‘i to life.
The prehistory of Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau is
written in stoneworks and taro terraces.
It's unearthed in natural history treasures
such as root casts and bird fossils eroding
out of lithified sand dunes, and in
excavated sites that yield dog-bone fish
hooks, coral abraders and chisels made of
basalt flake.
Anthropology and Archaeology come to life in
the 25 cabinet drawers of files and over
4,500 volumes at The Kaua‘i Historical
Society.
In early post-western contact times,
missionary families corresponded among
themselves, opening a window onto the joys
and sorrows, the triumphs and struggles of
their lives on Kaua‘i. People drew up deeds
of land, drew maps with roads and trails
long gone, and sat for formal portraits.
Personal papers from local families and
organizations, over 2,200 maps, drawings and
plantation records and over 4,000
photographs bring history to life in the
collections of the Kaua‘i Historical
Society.
• Established in 1914 to preserve Kaua‘i's
sacred places, the Society advocated early
on for the preservation of the Hawaiian
language.
• They were instrumental in preserving the
heiau
sites of Wailua, the caves at Ha‘ena, the
Menehune ditch at Waimea, the ‘Alekoko
Fishpond at Niumalu, the original Koloa
sugar mill and the Russian Fort in Waimea.
• They helped found the Koke‘e Natural
History Museum and the Kaua‘i Museum.
• Their programs include the Kaua‘i History
Lecture Series; dune walks at the
Hyatt-Regency Kaua‘i highlighting natural
history; the Kapa‘a History Tour and other
tours of archaeological, historical and
cultural sites. |
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ADDRESS |
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4396 Rice Street
Lihue, HI 96766-1371
(808) 245-3373 |
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WEBSITE |
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http://www.kauaihistoricalsociety.org |
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