Outdoor museum where visitors explore a historic coffee farm with costumed interpreters demonstrating early 20th-century Hawaiian agricultural life.
General Information
Closed weekends and major holidays
Final admission at 1:15pm
Children under 7: Free
Discounted admission with valid EBT, SNAP, or WIC card: $3
Group reservations required for parties over 20
How to Get There
From Kona, HI (12 mi): Drive south on Hawaii Belt Road (HI-11) for about 25 minutes; the farm entrance is on the makai (ocean) side just past Captain Cook.
Overview
Kona Coffee Living History Farm is an open-air agriculture museum on the 5.5-acre Daisaku Uchida Coffee Farm, established in 1900 in Captain Cook in the Kona District. It portrays the daily lives of early Japanese immigrant coffee farmers from 1920 to 1945. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, it is operated by the Kona Historical Society.
Things to Do
- Take a self-guided tour of the coffee orchard, farmhouse and coffee mill.
- Join a full tour led by costumed interpreters, available at limited times.
- Visit the original Henry Greenwell Store, home of the Kona Historical Society and also on the National Register, on Mamalahoa Highway (Hawaii Belt Road).
History
Daisaku Uchida came to Hawaii from southern Japan in 1906 to work on a KauaŹ»i sugar plantation, one of more than 140,000 Japanese laborers who arrived between 1868 and 1924. Like many, he left the plantation to start his own business, moving to the Kona farm with his wife Shima in 1913. The Uchida family lived on the farm until 1986 and their son Masao farmed it until 1994. When the lease expired and the land was slated for a housing subdivision, Sherwood Greenwell donated the never-modernized farm to the Kona Historical Society.
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Kona Coffee Living History Farm", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
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