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The Royal Hawaiian Hotel is located on land owned by Kamehameha Schools. Bishop's original bequest consisted of 375,000 acres (1,520 km 2) of land worth around $474,000. More than 365,000 acres (1,480 km 2) are still controlled by the estate.
After Bishop's death in 1884, her husband Charles Reed Bishop started work in carrying out her will. The original Kamehameha School for Boys was established in 1887. The girls' school was established in 1894 on a nearby campus. By 1955, the schools moved to a 600-acre (2.4 km 2) location in the heights above Kapālama.
Worthington's funeral and memorial service was held at the Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop Memorial Chapel at the Kamehameha Schools in Kapalama, Hawaii. [5] Guests, which included former Cook Islands Prime Minister Geoffrey Henry, came from as far away as New Zealand, Australia, Tahiti and the rest of United States.
Kamehameha Schools has set its sights on what can be seen as first steps to make 104 acres of largely contiguous Kapalama real estate, today dominated by industrial uses, a bit more like Kakaako ...
Ke Aliʻi Bernice Pauahi Paki Bishop's husband, Charles Reed Bishop, created the museum to preserve royal heirlooms passed down to him upon his wife's death. Charles Reed Bishop (1822–1915), a businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of the First Hawaiian Bank and Kamehameha Schools , built the museum in memory of his late wife, Princess ...
The upland areas of Kapālama developed into ‘Ālewa Heights, and the main campus of Kamehameha Schools. [4] Other educational institutions range from Honolulu Community College to the Kapālama Elementary school.
A graduate of Kamehameha Schools, Nainoa earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Hawaii, as well as his U.S. Army commission from UH's ROTC program before he enlisted.
Kamehameha Schools offers many extra-curricular activities and sports. The marching band appeared in the 2008 Tournament of Roses Parade. [6] The school offers classes in Hawaiian language in middle and high school as well as Japanese and Spanish in high school.