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Before western contact, Waihe'e was one of the areas of Maui with the densest native population. Fed by the Waihe'e River, one of the Na Wai 'Eha, the famous four rivers of the Central area, it was a rich, well-watered land. During the 1860's T. H. Hobron acquired land in Waihe'e for cane cultivation and Captain James Hobron of Makawao built the Lewis mill at Waihe'e on the site he had purchased.

Samuel T. Alexander was the mill manager and Henry Perrine Baldwin was head luna (field boss) there. In 1869, the two brothers-in-law formed a historic partnership and purchased their first tract of land for their eventual Pa'ia Plantation. They became the founders of Alexander and Baldwin which by 1898 had gained controlling interest in Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, the plantation on Maui which was then (and still is) the largest sugar plantation in Hawaii.

In 1920, the United States Congress passed the Hawaiian Homes Act in order to provide agricultural tracts for landless Hawaiians. On Maui, the Hawaiian Homes Commission set aside land at Waiehu, Paukukalo, Kula and Kahikinui for this purpose.

Into the 1930's the Hawaiians grew taro and other subsistence crops in rural areas like Waihe'e.