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  2. Mabel Hashisaka - Wikipedia

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    In 1965 she founded Kauai Kookie from a small kitchen in Waimea. [4] The business produced small cookies marketed to Japanese visitors to Kauai who wished to take gifts from the area back to Japan, in a tradition known as omiyage. [2] The first product was based on the recipe for chocolate macadamia-nut shortbread borrowed from a friend of ...

  3. Grove Farm (Lihue, Hawaii) - Wikipedia

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    By 1974, sugar production was leased to Alexander & Baldwin, while the company moved into residential and resort real estate operations. [4] The Wilcox estate was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hawaii on June 25, 1974, as site 74000722. Its boundary was adjusted to total 81.79 acres (33.10 ha) on December 8, 1978 ...

  4. Old Sugar Mill of Koloa - Wikipedia

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    The Old Sugar Mill of Kōloa was part of the first commercially successful sugarcane plantation in Hawaiʻi, which was founded in Kōloa on the island of Kauai in 1835 by Ladd & Company. [3] This was the beginning of what would become Hawaii's largest industry. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 29, 1962. [2]

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  6. H. P. Faye - Wikipedia

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    At the turn of the 20th century, the now-defunct Waimea Sugar Mill Company was a publicly owned and traded company, and Faye began to purchase shares in it. By 1905, he was the President and largest stockholder of Waimea Sugar Mill Co. By 1915 or 1916, Faye owned the entire operation. [4]

  7. Economic history of Kauaʻi - Wikipedia

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    The economic history of Kaua’i, anglicized as Kauai, dates back to before the European colonization of Kauai and, in whole, Hawaii.Before Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian island chain in 1778, [1] the native Polynesians of Kauai had a complex subsistence economy of fishing and trade among the other islands. [2]

  8. Sugar plantations in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    The industry was tightly controlled by descendants of missionary families and other businessmen, concentrated in corporations known in Hawaiʻi as "The Big Five". [2] These included Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, C. Brewer & Co., H. Hackfeld & Co. (later named American Factors (now Amfac)) and Theo H. Davies & Co., [11] which together eventually gained control over other aspects of the ...

  9. Valdemar Knudsen - Wikipedia

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    This cane, of the Lahaina variety, was the first commercially grown sugarcane in Kekaha. This plantation formed the basis of the Kekaha Sugar Company. [3] [4] [5] Knudsen's nephew, Hans Peter Faye, drew up much of the plantation's design. Kekaha Sugar was initially seen as a shaky investment with a need for great amounts of capital to build an ...