After the Pioneer Company of missionaries landed at Kailua-Kona,
Hiram and Sybil Bingham sailed for Honolulu and arrived April 19, 1820. It is said that Sybil started the first
school in Hawaiʻi in May 1820.
Sybil’s June 20, 1820 journal entry notes, “After neglect of
my journal for more than two months in a most interesting part of our history
too … Very soon I gathered up 12 or 15 little native girls to come once a day
to the house …. That was an interesting day to me to lay the foundation of the
first school ever assembled in this dark land.”
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