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The gardens were created in the 1930s by Alexandra Moir while her husband was manager of Hawaii's first sugarcane plantation, Koloa Plantation, near the site. [2] By 1948 the private gardens were reportedly identified as "one of the ten best cactus and succulent gardens in the world." They opened to the public in 1954.
Along the Kalalau Trail Honopū Valley, aerial view Nā Pali Coast view from a boat. Nā Pali Coast State Park is a 6,175-acre (2,499 ha) state park in the U.S. state of Hawaii, located in the center of the rugged 16-mile (26 km) northwest side of Kauaʻi, the second-oldest inhabited Hawaiian island.
Poʻipū is located at (21.884079, -159.464195 It is bordered to the north by Koloa and to the south by the Pacific Ocean.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.9 square miles (7.5 km 2), of which 2.6 square miles (6.7 km 2) are land and 0.3 square miles (0.8 km 2), or 11.08%, are water.
The 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge [9] Grove Farm Company Locomotives [10] were stored in a warehouse just to the west in the area known as Puhi, also listed on the NRHP, and formerly owned by Mabel Wilcox. [11] Some of the restored trains can be ridden about once a month at the site of the Lihue Plantation Sugar Mill nearby. [12]
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Hawaii is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Hawaii. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Name
Kōloa is located on the southern side of the island of Kauai at (21.907137, -159.465877 It is bordered to the northwest by Omao and to the south by Poipu.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.2 km 2), all of it recorded as land.
Allerton Garden, also known as Lāwaʻi-kai, is a botanical garden, originally created by Robert Allerton and John Gregg Allerton, [1] located on the south shore of Kauai, Hawaii. The garden covers an 80-acre (320,000 m 2 ) area and is situated beside the Lāwaʻi Bay, in a valley transected by the Lāwaʻi Stream.
In 1964, Public Law 88-449 was enacted which chartered the Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden (which would later be changed to National Tropical Botanical Garden). The group is a not-for-profit non-governmental institution holding a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code .