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History of the Road to Hana.

The Hana Highway was not mapped out, built and paved overnight.  It happened in stages.  First, a complex system of canals was built to carry water from east Maui to Hana to irrigate the grounds of different plantations.  Although not the same as roads, the building...

More Maui History!

The first modern roads on Maui began to be built around the late 1800s.  Many of these early roads led to and from different plantations in the town of Hana, where sugar, pineapple, wheat and rubber all flourished.  In 1849, George Wilfong opened the first sugar cane...

Some Ancient History!

In the days when powerful chieftains ruled the island, land was bestowed in tracts called ahupua’a that ran from the mountains down to the ocean.  To visit between villages, islanders traveled by canoe from one stretch of beach to another.  The first inland path...