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Throughout the country, state parks, historic sites, homes, buildings, museums, and similar institutions are struggling to continue operating. Because of general financial problems, many of these institutions are operating on a reduced schedule or in danger of closing. Some are being forced to sell off artifacts and property. Many will not weather these hard times without your help. Places Earth urges everyone to support these vital and important public resources any way you can. Please donate your treasure, time, and talent. Write to your governor and other elected officials telling them to find a way to keep state parks open. It will be your loss. Public Service Announcement | Test space for future ad if donations don't increase. |
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Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum
All photographs taken by Kenneth A. Larson. All rights reserved. © 2010 - 2012.|
The Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum is across the road from the largest working sugar factory in Hawaii. Larger pieces of equipment are arrayed around the exterior while the museum building is the former plantation superintendent's home, built in 1902. The rooms of the house
are divided into six distinct exhibit subjects: geography, water, human resources, plantation life, field work, and the mill. Geography covers the unique climate of Hawaii and locates where many of the mills were located. Water was important to the sugar industry as the valley was dryer than the north facing mountains and had to be brought around in aqueducts. Human Resources and Plantation Life covers the people, housing, and families. Fieldwork explains the equipment, trains, and all that went into growing the cane and the Mill covers the machinery to grinding the cane and extracting the juice and turning into granules with a working model of a mill. There is a small gift shop with many sugar related items but no food vendors. Address: 3957 Hansen Road Pu'unene, Hawaii 96784 808-871-8058 www.sugsrmuseum.com Location: At Mokulele Highway (Highway 311) and Hansen Road, a few miles south of Kahului. Hours: Monday to Saturday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Closed major holidays. Open Sunday seasonally. Contact the museum for current times. |
Sign and claw.
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Museum building exterior.
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| Cane transport truck. The cane lies in the chains. | |
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| Cane transport truck. To unload, the chains are lifted, dumping the cane. | |
 Truck door. |
 Tractors. |
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| Large claw to lift the cane. | |
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| Crane. | |
 Large self=-propeled equipment. |
 Gear. |
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| Equipment. | |
 Traditional Portuguese Oven. | There were many Portuguese immigrants on the plantations. For them, bread, made in these ovens, was a staple. This oven was built by Maui Agricultural Company in the 1920s behind house number 92 in Skill Village plantation camp in Pa'ia and moved here in 1984. Moving the oven was a major project and the restoration was not complete until 2008. |
 Exhibit on Japanese workers. |
 Plantation Room. |
 Working model of the factory. |
 Cane shortly before harvest. |
 The factory. |
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| The factory is across the street from the museum. | |
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