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Adolph Claus J. Spreckels [notes 1] (July 9, 1828 – December 26, 1908) was a Prussian Saxony-born major industrialist in Hawai'i during the kingdom, republican, and territorial periods of the islands' history. He also involved himself in several California enterprises, most notably the company that bears his name, Spreckels Sugar Company.
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)
Between 1900 and 1906, four surface water collection systems were constructed, giving the Waialua sugar plantation the largest water storage capacity in the state of Hawaii. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] As a result of these efforts, sugar production increased from less than 5000 to 20,000 tons from 1900-1905. [ 1 ]
The Big Five (Hawaiian: Nā Hui Nui ʻElima) was the name given to a group of what started as sugarcane processing corporations that wielded considerable political power in the Territory of Hawaii during the early 20th century, and leaned heavily toward the Hawaii Republican Party.
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The Old Sugar Mill, established in 1835 by Ladd & Co., is the site of the first sugar plantation. In 1836 the first 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) of sugar and molasses was shipped to the United States. [1] The plantation town of Koloa, was established adjacent to the mill. By the 1840s sugarcane plantations gained a foothold in Hawaiian agriculture.
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. [3]
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".