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You can experience a day in the life of an 1860s sugar planter on a visit to Grove Farm Homestead, which shows how good life was (for some, anyway) when sugar was king. This is Hawaii's best remaining example of a sugar-plantation homestead. Founded in 1864 by George N. Wilcox, a Hanalei missionary's son, Grove Farm was one of the earliest of Hawaii's 86 sugar plantations. A self-made millionaire, Wilcox died a bachelor in 1933, at age 94. His estate looks much like it did when he lived here, complete with period furniture, plantation artifacts, and Hawaiiana.
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Contact:
- visit website
- tel: +1 808 245 3202
Address:
- 4050 Nawiliwili Rd
- (at Kuhio Highway)
- Lihue, HI 96766
Hours:
- Tours: 10a & 1p M, W, Th (by reservation)
Strenuousness:
- No Sweat
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