[4] His son Joseph Porter Green (1833–1886) served at the church, and was elected to the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1860.

[6] The mill was named after Pali uli (literally "green cliff"), the place in Hawaiian mythology roughly equivalent to the garden of Eden.

The Pāʻia Community House, finished in hardwood on the inside, was built in 1914 adjacent to the church.

The Community House, with its large auditorium and 40-foot (12 m) deep stage was used for plays, operettas, school graduations, concerts, lectures, silent movies and dances.

A native Hawaiian pastor John Kalama served at both Makawao and Poʻokela until his death in 1896.

The "Daily Bulletin Newspaper, Honolulu Oct 2, 1889 pg3 Announced the purchase of a new pipe organ built for the church, by the NY firm of Roosevelt.

The frame church was razed in 1916 and construction began immediately on a new Gothic Revival style structure.

The new building was designed by architect Charles William Dickey (1871–1942), whose mother was Emily Baldwin's sister.

[10] The walls were built of reinforced concrete with native basalt lava rock veneer.

[15] Harry Baldwin, 1946[16] was a Republican Politician, Annie Montague Alexander, 1950[17] an explorer and scientist.