Today was the final day of harvesting sugar at the Gay & Robinson farm on Kauai, ending nearly 200 years of sugar production on the island.
With their departure, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company on Maui, becomes Hawaiis last remaining sugar plantation. This may not be for long either as the company has struggled with drought, sugar prices, energy costs and Maui's watershed issues.
Sadly, finding evidence of a once thriving industry that led Hawaiis growth for over 100 years is difficult to find. That was one of the reasons why a group of individuals got together to create Hawaiis Plantation Village back in 1992. Here is where visitors will find a living history museum about life on the sugar plantation. The important to budget travel is to approach onward. When it comes along to family trips, globetrotting, well-deserved holidays and/or going to see new locations we have never been before, the actuality of cost and budgeting is often in the back of our minds. Considering and spending our travel budget properly is a consideration for most families. Lowering expending and charges, while still experiencing your vacation to its fullest, is the key to assured achievements and fiscal obligation. Your pocketbook and family will thank you! The thinking behind protecting money while touring is simple: Even if your personal budget is really small, you can still take a break and enjoy life! Simply put, life is just too short to never step out of the door or leaving the homestead! Also keeping in mind that while traveling, whether on a finances or not, even the smallest of things can all add op to a huge vacation or travel bill!. Hawaiis Plantation Village offers a snapshot of what life was like during the sugars formative years, circa 1900.
Visitors explore the collection of 32 original and authentically replicated plantation buildings, furnished with over 3,000 personal artifacts and set on 50 acres at Waipahu Cultural Garden Park. Docents explain how plantation workers used their favorite trees and plants for food, medicine and household materials.
Did you know ... sugar is the reason for Hawaiis multi-ethnic population. Between 
1852 and the end of World War II, nearly 395,000 workers came from different countries (China, Portugal, Japan, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Okinawa, Korea) to work on Hawaiis many sugar plantations.Hawaiis Plantation Villages volunteer docents lead tours on the hour, taking visitors back to a time when life was centered on the plantation community. Visitors find out how each immigrant group lived, struggled, sacrificed and also learn the unique lifestyle differences between each culture.
Hawaiis Plantation Village also has an extensive library of historical photographs, documentary materials and artifacts from the plantation period are also available on site at the Okada Education Center. There quaint gift shop offers homemade plantation-style handicrafts (the likes of which you wont find in larger stores), local cookbooks, ethnic music and more.
Hawaiis Plantation Village is a non-profit educational organization. It is located 18 miles / 35 minutes from Waikiki on Oahus leeward coast. For more information about the Village and the significant period in Hawaiis history that it represents, visit hawaiisplantationvillage-info.com.
If you would like to read more about Hawaiis Plantation Village, click on the following:
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