Harold Kainalu Long Castle (July 3, 1886 – August 19, 1967) was a landowner, real estate developer, and later philanthropist in Hawaii.

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Harold Kainalu Long Castle was born July 3, 1886, in

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. Castle was the son of wealthy landowner

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and Julia White, and grandson of

Castle & Cooke Castle & Cooke, Inc., is a Los Angeles-based company that was once part of the Big Five companies in territorial Hawaii. The company at one time did most of its business in agriculture, including becoming, through mergers with the modern Dole F ...

founder

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and philanthropist

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. In 1917, he purchased almost of land on the windward side of the island of

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, in what was then the ahupuaa of

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, to start his sprawling Kaneohe Ranch. In 1962, he set up the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, which remains the largest private foundation based in Hawaii. He and his foundation have donated large amounts of land to educational and other public institutions, among them

Hawaii Loa College Hawaii Loa College was a private, four-year, liberal arts college in Kaneohe, Hawaii, founded in 1963 as Christian College of the Pacific by a consortium of four Protestant church denominations in Hawaii, with land deeded by Harold K.L. Castle ...

ʻIolani School Iolani School, located at 563 Kamoku Street in Honolulu, Hawaii, is a private coeducational college preparatory school serving over 2,020 students with a boarding program for grades 9 - 12 as well as a summer boarding program for middle school gra ...

, Castle High School, Kainalu Elementary School, Castle Medical Center, and the Mokapu peninsula land that became

Marine Corps Base Hawaii Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH), formerly Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay and originally Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay, is a U.S. Marine Corps facility and air station located on the Mokapu Peninsula of windward O'ahu in the City & County ...

. He and his wife, Alice Hedemann, both graduated from

Punahou School Punahou School (known as Oahu College until 1934) is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 3,700 students attend the school from kindergarten through twelfth grade, 12th grade. Protestant missionar ...

, he served on its Board of Trustees (1922–1937), and their descendants have continued to attend and support the school.

Plantation Estate Plantation Estate is a single-story, wood-frame, Pacific Ocean-front house at 57 Kailuana Place in Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii, which former President Barack Obama rented for use during his Christmas vacations from 2008 to 2016. The house is ...

, his home in

Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii Kailua () is a census-designated place (CDP) in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States. It lies in the Koolaupoko District of the island of Oahu on the windward coast at Kailua Bay. It is in the judicial district and the ahupua'a named Ko'ol ...

, has been used by

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as a

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during Christmas vacations in 2008, 2009, and 2010.

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Kaneohe Ranch Management LimitedHarold K.L. Castle Foundation
People from Hawaii 1886 births 1967 deaths 20th-century American philanthropists {{US-business-bio-1880s-stub

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