​Change Over Time in the Camps of the Hakalau Plantation

Plantation camps were the center of social life on the Hakalau Plantation. These camps, needed to house the workforce of immigrants labor Europe, Asia, and the Philippines, were established to support existing practices in cultivation, harvesting, and milling of cane cane. Practices changed over time, impacting:
  • the size of the labor force
  • the existence and/or location of camps
  • the composition of camps
Global events, including the Depression, World War II, and global competition in the sugar market impacted the ability of the plantation to survive and maintain its system of camps. All of the camps were gone by the 1980s.
HAKALAU PLANTATION ANNOTATED FIELD MAP SHOWING CAMPS IN THE 1950s

Updates:
​May 11, 2021

Upcoming Events: 
  • Updated events
​Yesterday:​
  • Expanded information in the Timeline and the Hakalau Jodo Mission to describe membership in the late 1980s and including a description and map shared by Rev. Tamura, resident minister from 1979-1996.
  • Expanded the overview of Camps to include development of Kulaimano Subdivision built to house sugar workers who were being moved out of old plantation housing.[The next step is redeveloping and expanding the content for each camp.]
Today: ​​​​Overall:
  • Redesigned the look to make text easier to read and photos larger and easier to see detail
  • Both the redesign and reorganization will support adding new information. Changes will be released over the coming months while we continue to make more changes. Please be patient while we're "under construction"!
  • Eliminated secondary subpages in menu for ease of viewing on cell phones and tablets. Example, rather than listing 17 camps in the menu, the secondary subpages for camps are accessed via links on the Camps page. More changes to come.
  • It's time to take all we've learned about the Hakalau Kuleana and convert it to a narrative--with pictures, of course--that is easier to understand and navigate.
For the Hakalau Kuleana, our responsibility is to care for the land, the people, and the culture. We are guided by the YESTERDAY'S cultural values: Engage in collective effort. Look out for each other. Honor hard work. Show respect for those who came before us. Aloha and Mālama `Aina.