Kīlauea Plantation

Kilauea Plantation was a sugarcane plantation on the north shore of Kauai, Hawaii, that gave its name to the surrounding community and operated from 1880 to 1971 under the Kilauea Sugar Company and its successor. American Charles Titcomb first acquired the land from Kamehameha IV by 1863 for cattle ranching before English businessmen John Ross and E. P. Adams bought and leased further land, planted cane, and incorporated the sugar company that dominated the area for nearly a century, running its own twelve-and-a-half-mile narrow-gauge railway. Several surviving plantation buildings, built largely of fieldstone salvaged from the cane fields in bungalow and craftsman styles of the 1920s to 1940s, including the manager's house, the head luna's residence, the head bookkeeper's house, the school, and the Kong Lung Store, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.