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The Kilauea Plantation Head Bookkeeper's House, at 2421 Kolo Rd. in Kilauea, Hawaii, was built in 1930. Its NRHP listing, also in 1993, included two contributing buildings . [ 5 ] The main house was the seventh stone house built by the plantation, and is "a good example of the bungalow/craftsman style in Hawaii".
It was established on May 10, 1955, to honor notable people from Kauai, Hawaii, and around the world. [26] The first tree planting was for a local radio personality named Webley Edwards of the show Hawaii Calls. The ceremonies continued until 1980 and ended with the 127th tree planting, for architect John Gregg Allerton.
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 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]
The Kilohana Plantation is centered on a mansion originally built for Hawaiian business magnate Gaylord Wilcox in 1935. [4] The property was taken over by Fred Atkins in 1986, establishing a restaurant and making the mansion available for events. This business model was a success until Hurricane Iniki struck the island in 1992. The plantation ...
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 ...
In 1835, the first sugarcane plantation was founded on Kauaʻi, and for the next century the industry dominated Hawaiʻi's economy. [15] Kauaʻi's last sugarcane plantation, the 118-year-old Gay & Robinson Plantation, stopped planting sugar in 2008. [16]
Pākalā Camp consisted of employee and retiree housing for workers at the Gay & Robinson sugarcane plantation in the ahupuaʻa of Makaweli, the last remaining sugarcane plantation on Kauai. [3] The plantation was managed by the Robinson family of Kauai and Niihau, who first arrived in Hawaii in 1863.