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Evergreen Plantation (Wallace, Louisiana) / 30.02722°N 90.64056°W / 30.02722; -90.64056. Evergreen Plantation is a plantation located on the west side of the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish, near Wallace, Louisiana, and along Louisiana Highway 18. The main house was constructed mostly in 1790, and renovated to its ...
Sister plantation to St. Joseph Plantation, built circa 1850 and privately owned. 80001712 Frogmore Plantation: May 31, 1980: Ferriday: Concordia: Established circa 1815, Frogmore Plantation has a steam-powered cotton gin. 82004674 Frozard Plantation House: August 12, 1982: Grand Coteau St. Landry 93001548 Godchaux–Reserve Plantation: January ...
The success of the plantation owners meant Hawaii would become essentially an oligarchy, with a wealthy class ruling the rest of the island chain's population, Dolim says. February 12, 1874: King ...
The Old Sugar Mill, established in 1835 by Ladd & Co., is the site of the first sugar plantation. In 1836 the first 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) of sugar and molasses was shipped to the United States. [ 1] The plantation town of Koloa, was established adjacent to the mill. By the 1840s sugarcane plantations gained a foothold in Hawaiian agriculture.
German immigrant Hermann A. Widemann (1822–1899) started one of the first sugarcane plantations in Hawaii known as Grove Farm in 1854. During the American Civil War, the demand for Hawaii sugar grew, but Widemann supported the Confederate States. [3] : 180 After leasing Grove Farm to its manager George Norton Wilcox (1839–1933) in November ...
Maui Land & Pineapple Company. Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. ( ML&P, NYSE : MLP) is a land holding and operating company founded in 1909 and based in Kapalua, Hawaii, United States. It owns approximately 24,300 acres (100 km 2) on the island of Maui. It develops, sells, and manages residential, resort, commercial and industrial real ...
v. t. e. The Big Five ( Hawaiian: Nā Hui Nui ʻElima) was the name given to a group of what started as sugarcane processing corporations that wielded considerable political power in the Territory of Hawaii during the early 20th century, and leaned heavily towards the Hawaii Republican Party. The Big Five were Castle & Cooke, Alexander ...
15-45200. GNIS feature ID. 0361837. Lihue ( Hawaiian: Līhuʻe, [liːˈhuʔe]) is an unincorporated community, census-designated place (CDP) and the county seat of Kauai County, Hawaii, United States. Lihue is the second-largest town on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi, following Kapaʻa. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a population of 6,455 ...