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Kauai Map: Grove Farm Homestead MuseumGrove Farm Homestead Museum Frommer's Recommended

Hours Tours offered Mon and Wed-Thurs at 10am and 1pm; reservations required
Address
4050 Nawiliwili Rd
Location Hwy. 58, at Pikaka St. (2 miles from Waapa Rd.), Lihue & Environs
Phone 808/245-3202
Web site www.hawaiiweb.com/kauai/html/sites/grove_farm_homestead.html
Prices Requested donation $5 adults, $2 children under 12

Frommer's Review

You can experience a day in the life of an 1860s sugar planter on a visit to Grove Farm Homestead, which shows how good life was (for some, anyway) when sugar was king. This is Hawaii's best remaining example of a sugar-plantation homestead. Founded in 1864 by George N. Wilcox, a Hanalei missionary's son, Grove Farm was one of the earliest of Hawaii's 86 sugar plantations. A self-made millionaire, Wilcox died a bachelor in 1933, at age 94. His estate looks much like it did when he lived here, complete with period furniture, plantation artifacts, and Hawaiiana.

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