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Hawaii is one of the few U.S. states where coffee production is a significant economic industry – coffee is the second largest crop produced there. The 2019–2020 coffee harvest in Hawaii was valued at $102.9 million. [8] As of the 2019-2020 harvest, coffee production in Hawaii accounted for 6,900 acres of land. [9]
A significant project undertaken by HSPA was to archive Hawaii's sugar company records. Between 1983 and 1994, archivists hired by HSPA received and processed records from dozens of sugar companies and related entities. The archival collection, now called the HSPA Plantation Archives, was donated to the University of Hawaii at Mānoa Library. [4]
During the American Civil War, the demand for Hawaii sugar grew, but Widemann supported the Confederate States. [3]: 180 After leasing Grove Farm to its manager George Norton Wilcox (1839–1933) in November 1864, [4] Widemann moved to Honolulu to work in the capital as a supreme court judge. Wilcox would later buy the plantation, and it ...
The history of Hawaii is the story of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands beginning with their discovery and settlement by Polynesian people between 940 and 1200 AD. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first recorded and sustained contact with Europeans occurred by chance when British explorer James Cook sighted the islands in January 1778 during his third ...
The Great Wall of Kuakini protecting from wild cattle roaming through Kailua (expanded older wall originally built to stop pigs and dogs). [7]In 1793 and in 1794 Captain George Vancouver gave four bulls and eight cows [3] to Hawaiian king Kamehameha I.
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In 1898, Castle & Cooke, one of Hawaii's Big Five trading and sugar industry management companies, formed the Waialua Agricultural Company and purchased the plantation from the Halstead Brothers. [3] [4] By the end of 1898, a new mill was constructed, and the first crop harvested in 1899, producing 1,741 tons of sugar. [4]