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The resort has two golf courses: The Bay Course and The Plantation Course. The Bay Course meanders around historic buildings and tropical gardens to the coastline. It was the host course to the Kapalua LPGA Classic, a full-field tournament on the LPGA Tour in 2008. [1]
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.
The Alexander and Baldwin plantation at Pāʻia stretched as far west as the ancient landing site where Kamehameha's war fleet landed in 1790. The plantation needed a port facility so a dock was built. Kuau was a seaport one mile northeast of Paia. [5] [6] Kuau Bay and Kuau Cove lie offshore.
Kapalua is located along the northwest coast of Maui at 3] along Route 30, known as the Honoapiʻilani HighwayThe Hawaiian name for this area was Honokahua. [4] [5]According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.8 square miles (15.1 km 2), of which 4.8 square miles (12.4 km 2) is land and 1.0 square mile (2.6 km 2), or 17.41%, is water.
Lahaina Cannery Mall is a shopping mall located in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. It is the island's only fully enclosed, air-conditioned mall, and encompasses 120,000 square feet (11,000 m 2). It has more than 50 boutiques, restaurants and specialty shops.
Japanese Laborers on Spreckelsville Plantation, Maui, oil on canvas painting by Joseph Dwight Strong, 1885. Spreckelsville was founded in 1878 as a company town by German-American businessman Claus Spreckels, who later founded the Spreckels Sugar Company.
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The plantation consisted of fifteen thousand acres on the slopes of Haleakala on the island of Maui. [7] James Makee and Julius A. Anthon had been doing business as Makee, Anthon & Co until 1852. At that time they dissolved their shipping and commissions agency and completed construction of their last enterprise together.