Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
as they pass on the street; where fishing nets hang in front yards and fish end up on the
dinner table instead of hanging on the wall. You don't come to Hana to reach something;
you come to leave everything else behind.
Hana was already a plantation town in 1849 when a hard-boiled sea captain named Ge-
orge Wilfong started producing sugar on 60 acres. Later, Danish brothers August and Os-
car Unna came to run the plantation. Through the years, the laborers were a mixture of
Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Filipino, and even Puerto Rican stock. The
luna
were Scottish, German, or American. All have combined to become the people of Hana.
After sugar production faded out by the 1940s, Paul Fagan founded Hana Ranch, which
still raises more than 1,200 head of cattle on about 4,500 acres today. Their faces stare
back at you as you drive past, a standard part of Hana's scenery.
