In the early 1800s, Koloa was scarcely inhabited by Hawaiians who grew a variety of kō, or sugarcane, called kōloa, or long sugarcane. But Hawaiians didn’t produce sugar, they chewed the sweet stalks of sugarcane. In 1789, the first Chinese came to Hawai‘i working in trading ships. One of them, Wang Tze-Chin, settled in Lawa‘i […]
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