Lana'i - Hawaii - page 747

Top Sights
1 Lanaʻi Culture & Heritage Center C1
Sights
2 Hawaiian Church B2
Sleeping
3 Dreams Come True C3
4 Hotel Lanaʻi C2
5 Plantation Home C4
Eating
6 Blue Ginger Café B1
7 Canoes Lanaʻi B1
8 Coffee Works B1
Lanaʻi City Grille (see 4)
9 Pele's Other Garden B2
10 Richard's Market B2
Shopping
11 Lanaʻi Arts & Cultural Center B2
12 Local Gentry B1
13 Mike Carroll Gallery B1
History
Lanaʻi is the only Hawaii island where the largest town is in the highlands and not on the
coast. Lanaʻi City is, in fact, the only town on the island - as has been the case for the
last eight decades.
The village was built in the 1920s as a plantation town for the field workers and staff
of Dole's Hawaiian Pineapple Company. The first planned city in Hawaii, Lanaʻi City
was built in the midst of the pineapple fields, with shops and a theater surrounding the
central park, rows of plantation houses lined up beyond that and a pineapple-processing
plant on the edge of it all. Fortunately it was done with a little pizzazz. Dole hired New