Cook Landing Site (Waimea) Cook Landing Site (Waimea) The Cook Landing Site in Waimea on Kauai island in Hawaii, is where Captain James Cook landed at the mouth of the Waimea River on January 20, 1778. Cook was the first European reported to have sighted the Hawaiian Islands, and the January 20 landfall on southwestern Kauai was his first arrival upon Hawaiian soil. Cook Landing Site was registered as a National Historic Landmark on December 29, 1962. Hofgaard Park is a small county park in Waimea, a few blocks from the actual landing, that commemorates the historic events of Cook's landing. It is suspected
Captain Cook Hotel building was replaced by a shop in 1875, adjacent to Alfred Terrace erected in 1869 for George Wigram Allen of Glebe. However a photo dated 1870-71 clearly shows the completed Captain Cook Hotel together with a legible painted sign of the hotel’s name. The style of the pub with its overhanging eaves and hipped roofs would appear to predate Allen’s 1869 row of terraces, and given that the site was empty and unprepared in 1864, the Captain Cook Hotel must date from 1867. This photo shows the hotel as a couple of two storey terraces at the end of the