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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)
Cynodon dactylon, commonly known as Bermuda grass, also known as couch grass in Australia and New Zealand, is a grass found worldwide. It is native to Europe , Africa , Australia and much of Asia .
The Hawaiian fishpond was primarily a grazing area in which the fishpond-keeper cultivated algae; much in the way cattle ranchers cultivate grass for their cattle. [3] The porous lava walls let in seawater (or sometimes fresh or brackish water, as in the case of the "Menehune" fishpond near Līhuʻe, Kauaʻi), but prevent the fish from escaping.
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Smith's Kauai is a family business established by Walter Smith, Sr. and his wife Emily in 1947 on the Wailua River and Wailua Marina State Park on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. [1] It began with a rowboat and borrowed outboard motor and by the 1950s had expanded to include the Fern Grotto Wailua River Cruise, which featured more than a dozen ...
The ʻAlekoko Fishpond, known locally as the Menehune Fishpond, [2] near Līhuʻe, Hawaiʻi, on the island of Kauaʻi, is a historic Hawaiian fishpond.Also known as Alakoko Fishpond, it has been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places since 1973.
A letter attached to (US) sheet 1385256, a collection of the species by Paul Weatherwax on 18 April 1927 from along Bay Shore Drive SE of Miami, explains that he had seen it a Chapman Field in 1925. He also states that Mr. Bissett showed him several plants of this at the bamboo farm near Savannah (another USDA facility in Georgia).
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 ...