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The Best Attractions In Koloa

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Koloa’s history is permanently documented in its name — Hawaiian for “Long Sugar.” It is the site of the first successful commercial sugar company in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Koloa still preserves its history in the old sugar mill smoke stack at the main intersection of the town, across from the historic town streetscape, preserving the buildings and scale of over 100 years ago.Kauai Historic Society Pres. Kōloa is an unincorporated census-designated place in Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States. The first successful sugarcane plantation in the Islands was started here in 1835. It became a part of Grove Farm in 1948. The population was 1,942 ...
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  • 2. Art House Hawaii Koloa
    The Tongan archipelago has been inhabited for perhaps 3000 years, since settlement in late Lapita times. The culture of its inhabitants has surely changed greatly over this long time period. Before the arrival of European explorers in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the Tongans were in frequent contact with their nearest Oceanic neighbors, Fiji and Samoa. In the 19th century, with the arrival of Western traders and missionaries, Tongan culture changed dramatically. Some old beliefs and habits were thrown away and others adopted. Some accommodations made in the 19th century and early 20th century are now being challenged by changing Western civilization. Hence Tongan culture is far from a unified or monolithic affair, and Tongans themselves may differ strongly as to what it is Tonga...
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  • 10. St. Raphael Church Koloa
    The Co-Cathedral of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church and its Diocese of Honolulu. Located in the outskirts of downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, it is larger in physical size as a church and parish territory than the principal Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. It was named in honor of the Saint Theresa of Lisieux. The original church parish was established in 1931 by Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, Vicar Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands. Construction was completed only a year later, in September 1932. Reflecting the growth of Catholicism in the immediate community, then pastor and diocesan vicar general Msgr. Benedict Vierra led a major fundraising effort to replace the church's wooden structure, showing signs of deterioration in 1956. Vierra's efforts...
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  • 15. Hawaiian Style Surfing Koloa
    Kauaʻi, anglicized as Kauai , is geologically the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands. With an area of 562.3 square miles , it is the fourth largest of these islands and the 21st largest island in the United States. Known also as the Garden Isle, Kauaʻi lies 105 miles across the Kauaʻi Channel, northwest of Oʻahu. This island is the site of Waimea Canyon State Park. The United States Census Bureau defines Kauaʻi as census tracts 401 through 409 of Kauai County, Hawaiʻi, which comprises all of the county except for the islands of Kaʻula, Lehua and Niʻihau. The 2010 United States Census population of the island was 67,091. The most populous town was Kapaʻa.
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