Hawaii

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Big Island, Saddle Road

Oahu
  • (Honolulu) Holiday Inn Ramada Plaza, 1830 Ala Moana, Honolulu
  • (Honolulu) Hilton Hawaiian Village, 2003 Kalia Rd, Honolulu, 808-953-2700, worth the stay
  • (Honolulu) Atlantis Adventures (submarine)
  • (Honolulu) Diamond Head State Monument “Le’ahi”
  • (Honolulu) Pearl Harbor
  • Haleiwa (North Shore)
  • Nuuanu Pali lookout (Cool Height Cliff)
Hawaii (The Big Island)
  • (Kapoho) Tide pools 
  • (Hilo) Rainbow Falls, Boiling pots, Wailuku River 
  • (Puna) Kehena Beach (black sand, Dolphin Beach) Sunday drum circle 
  • (Pahoa) 'Opihikao Steam Vents 15-mi (Hwy 130); scenic pullout 1/2 mile N Kamaili Rd
  • (Hilo) Akaka Falls state park (442') 11 miles north (at the end of Highway 220) 
  • (Ka Lae) South Point 
  • Hiking around the Island 
  • (Kamuela) Horse riding tours on Dahana Ranch ($70/ ranch rides (888) 399-0057) 
  • (Kamuela) Hapuna Beach Park (best white sand beach) 
  • (Pahoa) Ahalanui hot spring/beach (Pu'ala'a County Park)(Hwy 137, 10-mi marker)  Beaches in Ahalanui Park
HISTORY

Kings and Queen
  • Kamehameha the Great conquered the islands and united as his king in 1810, 1758-1819. 
  • Kamehameha II (birth name Liholiho 1797-1824 from measles in England to meet with King George IV) and who overturned the kapu system (religious law & destroying the temples and images) (he had 5 wives).  Protestant missionaries arrived in 1820.  
  • Kamehameha III (1814-1854) was king at 9 yrs old in 1824, and created Hawaii's first constitution in 1840 and land ownership in 1848 called Mahele.  Main industries of whaling, timber (sandalwood), and cattle increased and depleted.  Next sugar took off.
  • Kamehameha IV (nephew of III, birth name Alexander Liholiho, 1834-1863)
  • Kamehameha V (1830-1872, Lot, older brother of Alexander Liholiho) strength the executive branch but died with no successor, the constitution dictated an election by legislators to name the next monarch was held.
  • William Charles Lunalilo (1835-1874) who disbanded the Army because of mutiny and died of TB and alcoholism after 1 year in charge.
  • David Kalakaua (1836-1891) another election was held, not related to Kamehameha bloodline, built `Iolani Palace, signed the "Bayonet Constitution" in 1887, just a figurehead
  • Lili`uokalani (1838-1917) sister of David Kalakaua, the 13-member Committee of Safety staged a coup in 1893, pressured by United States Minister John L. Stevens and 162 US military, 1895 abdicated the throne after tried for treason and imprisoned in top story room of `Iolani Palace. 1898 US annexed Hawaii
Giovanni's Food Truck, Shrimp Scampi in Oahu on North Shore

Pacific Ocean, surfers in Oahu

Japanese Suicide Torpedo




Pearl Harbor, Honolulu


Memorial over the USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Oahu


Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Oahu


Beaches in Honolulu, Oahu










Kehena Beach of Puna District, Big Island of Hawaii



Hangin' Loose dog friendly

Yurt and Hot Tub in Keaau, Hangin' Loose


Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu sunset

 

Wild Horses on the southern part of the Big Island, Hawaii
 Religion
  • Anglican Church introduced in 1862
  • Mormon missionaries arrived in Honolulu on December 13, 1850
Industry
  • John Palmer Parker (1790–1868) Parker Ranch on the Big Island of Hawaii 
  • Walter Francis Dillingham (1875-1963, Baron of Hawai'i Industry) railroad industry, built dry docks (later known as Pearl Harbor)
  • Adolph“Claus” J. Spreckels (1828-1908) Spreckels Sugar Company (Sugar King) 
     
  • Hawaiian Pineapple Company was formed that later was acquired by Waialua Agricultural Co. of Castle & Cooke Inc (founded in 1851 by Amos Starr Cooke and Samuel Northrop Castle) and renamed Dole Food in 1991. Run by David Howard Murdock, 90 years old, born on 4-10-1923, Ohio.
    • James Drummond Dole (father, Charles F. Dole) bought Lanai in 1922 for $1.1 million who planted 18,000 acres of pineapple and founded the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901.  James migrated from Massachusetts to Hawaii in 1899 to cultivate coffee (market went down) and changed to pineapple.  Shipped the pineapple in tin cans versus glass.   Invention of the Ganaca machine helped in the canning
    • Harry Baldwin, missionary grandson, bought Lanai for $588,000 in 1917
Government
  • Hawaiian League (Committee of Safety, missionary political party, aka Annexation Club)
    • 2nd cousin, Sanford Ballard Dole, associate justice of the Supreme Court, attorney, president of Republic of Hawaii on 7-4-1894 until 1900 (wife was Anna P. Cate) & first governor of US territory Hawaii, 1900. Samuel Mills Damon (VP of new gov.), James A. King, Peter Cushman Jones
    1. Lorrin A. Thurston, leader of the League
    2. Henry Ernest Cooper
    3. Crister Bolte
    4. Andrew Brown
    5. William Richards Castle 
    6. John Emmeluth
    7. Theodore F. Lansing
    8. John A. McCandless
    9. Frederick W. McChesney
    10. Edward Suhr
    11. Henry Waterhouse
    12. William C. Wilder
    13. William Owen Smith

Lana'i
  • Walter Murray Gibson (1822-1888) (1861, founded Lana'i Sheep Ranch, excommunicated Mormon 1864, looted the treasury and bought half the island of Lana'i, founded a cult in 1866), his grandmother was Eliza Sinclair (NZ which was sold for piano and $10,000 in gold in 1864)
    • Frederick Harrison Hayselden (wife was Talula (Gibson) Hayselden), was left Lana'i by her father from 1888 to 1902, created Maunalei Sugar Company
    • 1902, 600 acres were bought at auction and planted pineapple. 
    • Charles Gay purchased Lana'i in 1902 and sold in 1910 after a 3-yr drought, plus 600 acres sold in separate auction
    • William G. Irvin, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, purchased in 1910  for $200,000 and formed Lana'i Ranch Company.
    • David Murdock sold the Island in 2012 to Larry Ellison (Oracle Corporation) 

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