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Grove Farm Plantation: the biography of a Hawaiian sugar plantation (2nd ed.). Pacific Books. ISBN 978-0-87015-242-9. Judith Dean Gething Hughes (1996). Women and Children First: The Life and Times of Elsie Wilcox of Kauai. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. ISBN 0-8248-1621-8. (alk. paper)
The Kauai Plantation Railway opened for business in January 2007 as “the first new railroad to be built in Hawaii in 100 years.” [29] Indirectly, both the Grove Farm and Kauai Plantation heritage railways share common ancestry. Kauai Plantation Railway offers a tour of Kilohana, the former estate of Gaylord Parke Wilcox (1881–1970 ...
Cynodon nlemfuensis, the African Bermuda-grass, is a species of grass, genus Cynodon, family Poaceae. [2] [3] It is native to Tropical Africa except West Africa, and widely introduced as a forage elsewhere; Hawaii, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Galápagos, South America, western and southern Africa, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, the Philippines and Australia. [1]
According to the USDA in 2022, the state of Hawaii had over 7,300 farm operations working on 1,100,000 acres. [2] By weight, honey bees may be the state's most valuable export. [ 3 ] According to the Hawaii Agricultural Statistics Service, agricultural sales were US$370.9 million from diversified agriculture, US$100.6 million from pineapple ...
Farm and ranchland acreage increased from 75 in 1939 to 518 in 1946. [9] Waimea saw many soldiers during this time, who were stationed at Camp Tarawa. When the war was over and the military had left, Waimea had an entertainment center, the Kahilu Theatre, and an airstrip, Waimea-Kohala Airport.
In 1969, the first Royal Sonesta Hotel was built in New Orleans. [12] [13] In 1970, the Hotel Corporation of America was rebranded Sonesta International Hotels. The name "Sonesta" was a portmanteau of A.M. Sonnabend's nickname "Sonny" and his wife Esther's name. [14] The company introduced "Just Us Kids", a children's club program, in 1975. [15]
It became a part of Grove Farm in 1948. Kōloa means "a long cane with a crook." [3] [4] The "native duck" is the correct translation for the similar-looking koloa (without the macron). [5] According to one account, the district of Kōloa was named for a steep rock called Pali-o-kō-loa which was found in Waikomo Stream.
Valdemar Emil Knudsen was born in Kristiansand, in Vest-Agder county, Norway.He was college-trained in botany and science in Copenhagen.Knudsen was successful both as a publisher in New York City and as a merchant during the California gold rush of the 1840s.