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A satellite image of the North Shore. Due to its natural environment, proximity to Honolulu, and large waves, the North Shore is a popular area for filming. The documentary film Bustin' Down the Door chronicles the rise of professional surfing in the early 1970s. The Fox Network TV show North Shore was filmed there.
James Campbell, Esq. (February 4, 1826 – April 21, 1900) was a Scots-Irish industrialist in sugar cane processing, who became one of the largest landowners in the United States Territory of Hawaiʻi, and a real estate developer. He was an immigrant to Hawaiʻi from Ireland.
Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [1] One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore ...
Kamehameha Highway is one of the main highways serving suburban and rural O‘ahu in the U.S. state of Hawai‘i.Informally known as Kam Highway, it begins at Nimitz Highway near Pearl Harbor and Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, serves the island's older western suburbs, and turns north across the O‘ahu Central Valley to the North Shore.
Haleʻiwa is located at 21°35'24" North, 158°6'50" West (21.590050, -158.113928), [3] southwest along Kamehameha Highway (State route 83) from Pūpūkea.At Haleʻiwa, Kamehameha Highway becomes state route 99 (at the traffic circle known as "Weed Circle"), which runs eastward up across the Oʻahu central plateau to Wahiawā.
Lāʻie is located north of Hauula and south of Kahuku along Kamehameha Highway (State Route 83). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.4 km 2). 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2) of it is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km 2) of it (40.65%) is water.
Kahuku is located at This community is located northwest from Laie and east from Kuilima and Kawela Bay along Kamehameha Highway ().. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km 2), of which 1.0 square mile (2.6 km 2) is land and 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2) is water.
The Waialua Sugar Mill finally closed in October, 1996 due to profit concerns and was the last sugarcane plantation on the island of Oahu to close. [4] [9] By 1999, the site's sugar workers camp was still inhabited by former Filipino laborers. [11] The area currently serves as an industrial park for the North Shore of Oahu. In 2020, the 25 ...