H.N. Greenwell Store Museum
Another project of the Kona Historical Society is the restoration of the H.N. Greenwell Store Museum. They have gone through great lengths to research and stock items that would have been in need to the many cowboys (yes, cowboys…”paniolos” in Hawaii) and farmers in the area, circa 1890.
Built in 1870, by Englishman Henry Nicholas Greenwell, the […]
The Kona Coffee Living History Farm
One of the many Kona Historical Society’s projects, the Kona Coffee Living History Farm is a 5 1/2 acre farm with coffee and macadamia-nut trees, a farmhouse, and a coffee-processing mill, circa 1913. It is a reflection of life for some of the thousands of Japanese immigrants living in the area pre-1945.
The Kona Coffee Living […]