The Grove farm

The Grove farm

Sugar
Plantation
Hawaii

The source is a photograph of one of the first sugar plantations which is called the grove farm. During the American civil war the demand for sugar grew and Hawaii’s sugar production was on the rise. Hawaii’s climate is ideal for the growth of sugar cane. Sugar cane plantings in Hawaii went from 50 acres in 1835 to 100,000 acres in 1900. The destruction to agriculture in the South of America due to the war meant that sugar trade in Hawaii was a big success. The rise of sugar production resulted the rise in trade and relations between the United states and Hawaii. The sugar plantations success was further emboldened by the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875.

Hermann A. Widemann, Kauai

Grove Farm Sugar plantation museum

https://grovefarm.org/kauai-history/

19th century

Grove Farm Sugar plantation museum
https://grovefarm.org/kauai-history/

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Visual - photograph

19th century Hawaii