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Haʻikū Mill

Field	Value
name	Haʻikū Mill
image	Ha'iku Mill by Edward Bailey, 1895, Bailey House Museum.JPG
caption	Haʻikū Mill in Maui, Hawaii (1895 painting)
location	250 Haiku Road,
Haikū, Maui, Hawaii
coordinates
locmapin	United States Maui#Hawaii
built	1861
architect	D.M. Weston
added	February 6, 1986
area	1.9 acre
refnum	86000189
designated_other1	Hawaiʻi Register of Historic Places
designated_other1_abbr	HRHP
designated_other1_date	February 6, 1986
designated_other1_number	50-50-06-01622
designated_other1_num_position	bottom

Haikū, Maui, Hawaii The Haikū Sugar Mill was a processing factory for sugarcane from 1861 to 1879 on the island of Maui in Hawaii.

History

The northeastern coast of Maui has a small village named Hai kū which literally means "sharp break" in the Hawaiian language.

The Haiku Sugar Company was chartered on November 20, 1858 by the Kingdom of Hawaii. It was one of the first ten companies to go into the sugar business in the Hawaiian Islands. The investors, the Castle & Cooke partnership, contracted with Isaac Adams of Boston and D. M. Weston for a milling machine and boiling house with total cost of US$12,000. The first crop was processed in December 1861. In 1871 Samuel T. Alexander became manager of the mill. He formed Alexander & Baldwin with his partner Henry Perrine Baldwin, and organized an irrigation system from 1876 to 1878 that allowed more steady crops to be grown in more leeward areas of the island. As a result, Haiku Mill was abandoned in 1879.

In 1881 Kahului railroad allowed cane to be carried to larger mills near the town of Kahului. In 1905 the Haiku plantation merged with another to become Maui Agricultural Company, and later became the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company division of Alexander & Baldwin with one remaining mill at Puunene. The Haikū area later became a pineapple plantation. The former cannery at 810 Haiku Road is now a shopping center called the Haiku Marketplace.

Only the walls of the mill were left standing when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 6, 1986 as site 86000189, listed as "Haiku Mill". It is state historic site 50-046-1622.

The mill was purchased and restored by Sylvia Hamilton-Kerr and as of 2016 was open for tourism.

References

{{NRISref. 2009a
(February 1, 2022). "Historic Register Counts". State of Hawaii.
Pukui and Elbert. (2004). "lookup of haiku". Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library, University of Hawaii.
Robert M. Kiger. (May 27, 1985). ["Haiku Mill nomination form"]({{NRHP url). National Park Service.
(October 2017). "Visit us in Haiku". Kopa Haiku.
(June 2009). "National and State Register of Historic Places on Maui". Hawaii State Department of Land and Natural Resources.
(October 13, 2016). "4 splendid tours through Maui's sugar history".

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