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In 1967, the Outrigger Waikiki On The Beach hotel opened, the first to carry the Outrigger name. During the 1970s, Outrigger grew into a chain of Hawaiian hotels. In 1982, the company purchased the Prince Kuhio Hotel, its first luxury property. By 1986, Outrigger became the largest hotel chain in Hawaii when its room count reached over 7,000.
The gardens were created in the 1930s by Alexandra Moir while her husband was manager of Hawaii's first sugarcane plantation, Koloa Plantation, near the site. [2] By 1948 the private gardens were reportedly identified as "one of the ten best cactus and succulent gardens in the world." They opened to the public in 1954.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Location of West Feliciana Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States.
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1] There are 39 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the parish, including 5 National Historic Landmarks. One property was once listed, but has been removed.
On May 31, 2006, Trump announced plans for Trump International Hotel and Tower Waikiki Beach Walk, to be built on the property. Construction was to begin in early 2007, with completion planned for early 2009. [3] In July 2006, demolition of the Royal Islander and Reef Lanai hotels made room for Trump Waikiki.
The map was printed by longtime New Orleans bookseller Benjamin Moore Norman. [3] As one historian wrote, "At the time Norman's chart was published, the sugar coast stood prominently at the center of political power in Louisiana. Persac's inclusion of planters' names allows the viewer to navigate his chart as a map of concentrated power."
By 1892, the line was 18.5 miles (29.8 km) long, reaching ʻEwa sugar mill, home of Dillingham's ʻEwa Plantation Company property. Although progress stalled during the chaos of the late Kingdom and early Republican periods, by 1895 the railroad had passed through what would become the junction of Waipahu , traversed the ʻEwa plain, and was ...