It was the hand that made us stop.
Driven pass here countless times. Just never stopped.
A Park and grab with a little history of Hawaii thrown in.
Between Kahuku and Waialua, a burnt out shell of a building sits on the property where Crawford’s Convalescent Home now resides.
Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported that Kamehameha V, under the recommendations of the Board of Education, approved an act authorizing the BOE to "establish an industrial and reformatory school for the care and education of helpless and neglected children, and also for the reformation of juvenile offenders."
This was Hawai'i's first reformatory school. In 1903 the Waiale'e Industrial School For Boys was opened. Although the building has long been vacant, one can’t help thinking about the boys who lived here from 1903 to around 1950. The reasons for their confinement ranged from truancy, to larceny, assault and disobedience.
The school appears ghastly in a photograph in a 1919 Star-Bulletin article with the caption, "Dormitory." The article reports, "members of the education committee of the house of representatives are of the opinion that the so-called dark cells or dungeons are improper and should be abolished." The basement still exists today, hiding behind the overgrowth. One can’t help but wonder if this was where the "dark cells," and dark activity held therein, were located.
Another Star-Bulletin article reveals excerpts of a journal discovered by then-superintendent Morris Freedman that covers most of the inmates from 1889 to 1908. "Disobedience to the moral suasion of parents [resulted in] a man-sized term of 3 to 5 years . . . Runaways were not few and far between . . . Ball and chain were used."
An unpublished article written by Freedman between 1935–1939 that reflects on the school's startling policies on corporeal punishment before his tenure:
"Oregon boots, shackles, leg irons, cat-o-nine tails, straps soaked in vinegar and salt, terrific lashings and beatings were the order of the day. In 1921, when Mr. Wesson [took over] the school his first act was to destroy these vestiges of the Dark Ages era [and he] discontinued the use of dark cells which were built below the level of the street surface . . . his treatment was by far more humane than it had been before."
The Waiale'e Industrial School For Boys was meant to be a self-sustaining school. The boys, whose ages ranged from seven to 25, "cultivated their own taro, bananas, sweet potato and sugarcane and raised cattle and pigs for milk and meat, and managed the school’s farm, repair shop, engine room, generators, water power, carpenter shop, tailor shop, and ice house" according to the Honolulu Advertiser in 1928. As times changed however, the boys' work moved from agricultural to industrial.
A 2002 fire destroyed all but the concrete walls left standing now.
The signs now read No Parking; No Drink; Keep Out.
An average of 180 boys are reported to have lived at the school at any given time; they even assembled a music band and performed in many parades in Honolulu. The practice hall remains today, covered in graffiti across the street from the home. Listen carefully and you might hear the boys practicing for their next performance while you look for the cache. Let them serenade you.
Congrats to 808 
>(:) and GeoGerms 
for their team FTF
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