Anna Ranch Heritage Center, Historic cattle ranch in Waimea, United States.
Anna Ranch Heritage Center is a historic cattle ranch in Waimea with buildings dating from the early 1900s. The property includes a main house, structures for processing livestock, a barn, and a garage that together show how ranch life operated across generations.
The ranch traces to about 1828, when Englishman James Fay married Kaʻipukaikapuokamehameha Kahahana; their daughter Mary Kaʻala Fay married George Kynaston Lindsey, who bought the land in 1858. Their descendants ran it for generations, and Anna Leialoha Lindsey Perry-Fiske managed it from 1939 until her death in 1995. The house was restored to its 1939 condition and opened for tours in September 2007; the site joined the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 2008.
The name honors Anna Leialoha Lindsey Perry-Fiske, whose influence shaped the property for generations. Visitors can observe how Hawaiian and European practices were woven together in the daily work of ranching.
The ranch house was restored to its 1939 condition and opened for tours in September 2007. The site sits on Hawaii Belt Road (Route 19), called Kawaihae Road at this point, in Waimea. The main buildings, a ranch house, slaughter house, barn and garage, were built between 1910 and 1930.
In the mid-1900s, a woman managed the ranch independently and built a successful life there. She later became a major supporter of a major health organization in Hawaii.
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