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…
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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…
In 1830, former Yankee watchmaker Charles Titcomb (1805-83) was aboard the whaler, “Lyra,” when it was shipwrecked off Maui. He then settled on Kaua‘i, and…
In April 1993, hunters stumbled upon a burial cave deep inside Waimea Valley several miles above Waimea town. Within the cave, they uncovered five human…
During the early 20th century, Japanese matchmakers would arrange marriages between single women in Japan seeking husbands in Hawai‘i, and Japanese bachelors in Hawai‘i who…