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Kōloa starts the Hawaiian sugar industry
1835
Kōloa, Kauai
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The first successful sugar plantation began here and the industry then imported labour from China, Japan, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Korea and the Philippines. Plantation camps and their shared pidgin produced the ethnic mix and the creole language the islands still have.
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