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Grove Farm (Lihue, Hawaii)

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to work in the capital as a supreme court judge. Wilcox would later buy the plantation, and it remained in the family for over 100 years. Wilcox had an irrigation system built to bring water from the wet mountains to the flatter lower elevations where the crops were grown. This idea was later copied
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The main estate house has two bedrooms, writing room, two bathrooms, and a library on the first floor. A grand staircase leads up to the second floor which has more bedrooms. Behind the main house is a hexagonal gazebo styled after a Japanese teahouse, built in 1898. To the south is a guest cottage
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to design a house for Ralph Wilcox and his wife Daisy Rice. Dickey also supervised a renovation of the main house in 1915 which removed interior walls to create large open spaces. From 1913 to 1917 a row of small houses were built for plantation workers. The houses were called Kaipu Camp after the
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the farm started to diversify by growing other food crops to feed the growing population of the islands, including the military. In 1948, Grove Farm purchased the 3,000-acre (1,200 ha) McBryde plantation which included the
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with two living areas from about 1890. Another single story cottage was built in 1877 for George Wilcox, and an office building was built in 1884. A number of support buildings include sheds and a garage.
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Wilcox died in 1933, and the farm was left to nieces and nephews. This included the six children of his brother Samuel Wilcox (1847–1929) and Emma Lyman (1849–1943), daughter of missionary
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hit in 1992. It opened with ten holes in 1997. It has come to be a full, 18 hole golf course. In 2000 the Grove Farm Company (not including the Museum) was bought by
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on June 25, 1974, as site 74000722. Its boundary was adjusted to total 81.79 acres (33.10 ha) on December 8, 1978, and site changed to 78003436.
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production ended in the area. A golf course designed for the former plantation called Puakea was partially built when
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sold some adjoining land, which grew the acreage by about a factor of ten. In 1903 the family hired
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Women and children first: the life and times of Elsie Wilcox of Kauaʻi
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Women and Children First: The Life and Times of Elsie Wilcox of Kauai
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Grove Farm Plantation: the biography of a Hawaiian sugar plantation
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were stored in a warehouse just to the west in the area known as
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National Register of Historic Places in Kauai County, Hawaii
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Hawaiian name for a Chinese foreman of the plantation.
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Civilian Conservation Corps Camp in Kokeʻe State Park
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Robert J. Schleck; Nathan E. Napoka (April 1, 1979).
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Grove Farm museum's 'Plantation Railway Collection'
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Hawaiʻi Register of Historic Places

Grove Farm (Lihue, Hawaii) is located in Kauai
Grove Farm (Lihue, Hawaii) is located in Hawaii
Hawaii Route 58
Lihue, Hawaii
21°57′57″N 159°22′5″W / 21.96583°N 159.36806°W / 21.96583; -159.36806
Charles William Dickey
74000722
78003436
Hawaiian Islands
Hermann A. Widemann
sugarcane
plantations in Hawaii
American Civil War
George Norton Wilcox
Honolulu
Princess Ruth Keʻelikolani
Charles William Dickey
David Belden Lyman
World War II
Koloa sugar mill
Alexander & Baldwin
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hawaii
Grove Farm Sugar Plantation Museum
Hawaii Route 58
2 ft 6 in
narrow gauge

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