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  2. Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum - Wikipedia

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    In 1889 the McKinley Tariff act raised tariffs on sugar exported to the U.S. market, and its price dropped to two cents a pound. Baldwin took advantage of the lower land prices and built an irrigation project on Kauaʻi island called the Hanapepe ditch for the Hawaiian Sugar Company. He moved his family to Kauaʻi for a few months before moving ...

  3. Goat Cay, Exuma - Wikipedia

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    Goat Cay is a private island off Darby Island in the Exuma district of the Bahamas. Goat Cay is located somewhat southeast of Musha Cay, an island owned by David Copperfield, and west of Lignum Vitae Cay. [1] (There is also a Goat Cay off Great Exuma Island and off Little Exuma Island, as well as off other Bahama Islands.)

  4. Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park - Wikipedia

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    The Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park is a protected area in the Exuma Cays of the Bahamas. The protected area extends from Shroud Cay in the north to Bell Cay in the south. The vegetation consists of mangrove communities, with the east sides being clad in low scrub and the western sides with taller scrub. There are many epiphytic orchids and ...

  5. Haiku Mill - Wikipedia

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    The Haiku Sugar Company was chartered on November 20, 1858 by the Kingdom of Hawaii. It was one of the first ten companies to go into the sugar business in the Hawaiian Islands . The investors, the Castle & Cooke partnership, contracted with Isaac Adams of Boston and D. M. Weston for a milling machine and boiling house with total cost of US$12,000.

  6. List of sugar refineries - Wikipedia

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    Factory of sugar company Kentjong in Pare: Badas Sugar Factory: Inactive: Badas sugar factory northeast of Kediri: Purwoasri Sugar Factory: Inactive: former land converted into Purwoasri Bus Terminal: Mojopanggung Sugar Factory: Active: Tulungagung Regency: Bridge with railway line for the transport of sugar, probably at the Modjopanggoong ...

  7. Torch Cay, Exuma - Wikipedia

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    Torch Cay claims the highest point of elevation in the entire Exuma island chain and cays, with a hilltop reaching a maximum elevation of 128 ft. [7] Situated at a lower elevation point on the island, Torch Cay's light annual rainfall drains inland to a central farm area as opposed to the sea, creating a fertile basin for agriculture protected ...

  8. Eleuthera - Wikipedia

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    Eleuthera Island is one of several within the archipelago surrounded by shallow seas, visible here as light blue. Mosaic patterns of sand waves built by sea bottom currents in the shallows stand out in stark contrast to the deep blue of the ocean depths of a thousand feet in the Exuma Sound.

  9. Albion plantation - Wikipedia

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    1889 map of Albion plantation [1] Map of the associated Albion Mountain. [1] Vacuum sugar vessel at The Great Exhibition, 1851. Sugar refining equipment at Albion c. 1890 showing the triple-effect evaporators on the right. [2] Albion, 1915. [3] Albion was a sugar plantation in Saint David Parish, Jamaica.