For over 100 years, Waialua was the rural heart of
the North Shore. Families from all different ethnic
backgrounds graced the lands over generations.
These farmers helped put Hawaii on the modern map
with the most delicious sugar and pineapple by
working this beautiful and fertile land.
Hawaii graveyard desecrated by off-road racers,
vandals, dogs
By Eloise AguiarAdvertiser Staff Writer
Families, individuals and organizations have toiled for 10 years to transform a neglected, weed-filled cemetery in Waialua into the peaceful resting place it was meant to be. But they say vandals are destroying the good work while racing through the graveyard with vehicles, crushing graves and destroying markers.
Honolulu Advertiser Story
By Eloise AguiarAdvertiser Staff Writer
Families, individuals and organizations have toiled for 10 years to transform a neglected, weed-filled cemetery in Waialua into the peaceful resting place it was meant to be. But they say vandals are destroying the good work while racing through the graveyard with vehicles, crushing graves and destroying markers.
Honolulu Advertiser Story
Preserve Pu'uiki Cemetery.
Their blood, sweat and tears built the "circle
island" railroad that took employees and sugar from
one sugar mill to the other. Their blood, sweat and
tears grew the marketable reputation of, "the
world's best sugar."
Today, the agricultural companies are no longer and
"Plantation Days" are all but forgotten. Forgotten
too will be the history and the people who lived it
unless Pu'uiki Cemetery is cared for and
preserved.