Ruins of the Waialee Industrial School in 2014
View of the ruined boys' dorm (right) and dining hall (center). Source: E. Ion
Description
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded additions and improvement work for the Boys’ School (also known as the Waiale’e Home for Wayward Boys or the Waiale’e Industrial School for Boys) on the North Shore of Oahu. The PWA grant amounted to $61,364. The work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No. TH-1033-F, was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditures for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939.
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Ruins of the Waialee Industrial School in 2014
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Source: Stafford-Ames Morse; (https://www.ghosttowns.com/states/hi/waialee.html).
Waialee Dorm
Source: Stafford-Ames Morse; (https://www.ghosttowns.com/states/hi/waialee.html).
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Source: Stafford-Ames Morse; (https://www.ghosttowns.com/states/hi/waialee.html).
Waialee School Grounds in the 1930s
Source: Stafford-Ames Morse; (https://www.ghosttowns.com/states/hi/waialee.html).
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Source: Stafford-Ames Morse; (https://www.ghosttowns.com/states/hi/waialee.html).
Waialee School Grounds in 1949
Source: Stafford-Ames Morse; (https://www.ghosttowns.com/states/hi/waialee.html).
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Students at the Waialee School
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Students at the Waialee School
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Source: Stafford-Ames Morse, Gordon R. Morse. Morse lived in Waialee from 1939-1945. See Gordon R. Morse, North Oahu Awakens (https://www.biography-ebooks.com/_/_/572188/north-oahu-awakens), accessed on June 28, 2017.
Students at the Waialee School
Source: Stafford-Ames Morse, Gordon R. Morse. Morse lived in Waialee from 1939-1945. See Gordon R. Morse, North Oahu Awakens (https://www.biography-ebooks.com/_/_/572188/north-oahu-awakens), accessed on June 28, 2017.
Source notes
Hawaii State Archives, GOV8-18, U.S. Departments, Emergency Relief – Works Progress Administration. The Boys of Waialee, Historic Hawaii Foundation, accessed June 28, 2017.
Project originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 28, 2017.
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To learn more about Waialee, go on line and read “North Oahu Awakens” by Gordon Morse
Other then the first photo, the others were supplied by Stafford-Ames Morse who lived there from 1939 – 1945