Hawaii's Plantation Village
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Step back in time to when ‘sugar was King’ and experience real Hawai‘i. Hawaii’s Plantation Village is the perfect location for keiki, family, and all ages to explore a living history museum and botanical garden opening a door to time. Step back in time to when ‘sugar was King’ and experience real Hawai‘i. Hawaii’s Plantation Village is the perfect location for keiki, family, and all ages to explore a living history museum and botanical garden opening a door to time of true hospitality and cultural sharing that sprung from Hawaii’s plantation life.
Located in historic Waipahu town, local guides take you on a journey back to the early 1900s, where you can experience more than 25 authentic plantation homes and structures featuring personal artifacts, clothing, furniture and art placed in their original settings. Unusual plants brought from China, Portugal, Japan, Puerto Rico, Korea, Okinawa, Polynesia, and the Philippines by the immigrants from their native lands provide delicious fruit samples during the tour. Visitors coming on the first Saturday of each month will experience a special treat as the village comes alive with ethnic demonstrations and interactive historical vignettes interwoven into the guided tour.
In addition to guided tours, Hawaii’s Plantation Village offers Cultural Festivals (like Chinese New Year, Japanese O-bon, etc.) throughout the year making it possible for visitors to taste delicious ethnic food, learn traditional crafts, music, dance, customs and more!
The gift shop features home-made handicrafts, ethnic music, cookbooks, toys and much more! This “must-see” attraction is located in historic Waipahu town, just down the street from Waikele Shopping Outlets.
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facebook.comA video taken on September 9, 2017 of our Hawaii's Plantation Village Legacy Dinner. Every year we choose 4 people or groups of people who have contributed of themselves to keep our museum alive. Thanks to all involved. If there's anyone out there within the reach of this Facebook post, if you would like to be a part of our museum as a volunteer docent or paid tour guide, please contact our office at (808) 677-0110.
More October shenanigans are coming to the village for Halloween. Buy your tickets and enjoy! Note: Please remember this event is held here for entertainment purposes only and does not in any way have anything to do with our Hawaii's sugar plantation heritage. Thank you.
The Portuguese Festa coming up soon on Saturday, October 7, 2017, 10am-3pm. Everyone is invited to enjoy the festivities.
This is one of the events scheduled for October for entertainment purposes only. Let your imagination run wild 😱
Our hearts go out to the people of Puerto Rico as they live through the aftermath of hurricane Irma and now Maria. The entire island is without electricity today after the force of Maria struck yesterday. The reason Puerto Rican's immigrated to work in Hawaii's sugar plantations was because of devastating hurricanes in the late 1800's. "This devastation caused a world wide shortage in sugar and a huge demand for the product from Hawaii. Hawaiian sugar plantation owners began to recruit the jobless, but experienced, laborers in Puerto Rico. On November 22, 1900, the first group of Puerto Ricans consisting of 56 men, began their long journey to Hawaii."
Our Legacy Awards Dinner last night at Pearl Country Club.
Yesterday at the Okinawan Festival in Waikiki. This was the first year Rimi Natsukawa has appeared at the festival.
Our sugar cane train at Hawaii's Plantation Village is in need of restoration. We are looking for sponsors who can help us if anyone can.
A reminder for this coming weekend, Saturday and Sunday, 9/2 and 9/3 at Kapiolani Park. Park your car at Kapiolani Community College and take the shuttle to the park. The shuttle runs all day, back and forth, until closing each day.
This is an aerial view of Hawaii's Plantation Village in Waipahu, Oahu. The main Okada Building visitor center is on the right with the parking lot. The outdoor village museum where we take out our guided tours is along the bottom left next to Waipahu Street. The entrance to the museum is also from Waipahu Street. The taro fields can be seen in the center.
Story of plantation camps on the island of Maui.
The Macadamia nut tree was discovered in Australia in 1828. In 1857 the tree was named after Dr. John Macadam who was a scientist and secretary to the Philosophical Institute of Australia. In 1882 the macadamia nut was introduced to Hawaii and planted as windbreaker trees for the sugar cane. In 1910 the Hawaiian Agricultural Experiment Station started planting the tree in the Kona coast to supplement the coffee industry. In 1922, Ernest Van Tassel started the first Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Company.
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