Born in Pennsylvania, William Reynolds (1815-1879) joined the Navy in 1831, was promoted to midshipman and lieutenant in 1841, and served as an officer with…
Posts published in “Island History”
Herewith is a brief historical account of the recruitment and importation of foreign laborers, some with wives and children, under contract to Hawaiian sugar plantations,…
For 36 years, until 1985, when they retired from taro farming, Shoichi Nagamine (1920-2001) and his wife, Shizuko Nagamine (1924-2008), raised taro on their 12-acre…
Wailua Valley rice farmer Au Tai Hon (1888-1940), of Chinese ancestry, was born at Kapa‘a, Kaua‘i and was educated at Mid-Pacific Institute and Iolani. Following…
In February 1942, during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a…
Since September 2022, Kaua‘i Community College archivist Jason Ford has been archiving and preserving the work of archaeologist Dr. William Kikuchi (1935-2003). Dr. Kikuchi did…
Robert A. Macfie Jr. (1854-1925), the manager and a principal owner of Kaua‘i’s Kilauea Sugar Co., visited fellow Scotsman and famous novelist, essayist, poet and…
McBryde Sugar Co., named after Judge Duncan McBryde, was incorporated in 1899 as a consolidation of ‘Ele‘ele Plantation, the McBryde Estate, and Koloa Agricultural Company.…
Born at Laie, O‘ahu, Native Hawaiian John Manaia Nawela (1852-1940) sailed the Pacific for many years as a whaler and expert harpooner. He first went…
William Huddy (1855-1924) was born in Honolulu to William Henry Harrison Huddy, his American father from Rhode Island, and Kahea, his Hawaiian mother. He acquired…