Hawaii Plantation & Industrial Museum, Inc. - Hilo, Hawaii Memories of Hawaii - Big Island Visit the museum and find many exhibits showing the "good ole days" of plantation life that became known as the "plantaion culture".....Hawaiian, Japanese, Filipino, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Puerto Ricans, and even the Haole's worked, played, married each other...which developed the very unique culture found only in Hawaii. Men and women worked the cane fields in the 1900s. Railroads were used to deliver cane from the fields to the mills. Babe Ruth visited the Big Island in 1933...many other sports visitors came to the island...view photos, game balls, tickets, brochures, trophies, etc...... How did the sugar plantations get started? Find the first passenger train to Hamakua....what was the cost? Find the first 150+ cars registered on the Big Island. Photo's of sugar plantation life.... Who played on the first Hilo High football team... Find out when cock fighting started in Hawaii.... Find Mark Twains Monkeypod bowl. Twain visited the island in 1866.... Look at a 1880-1881 Hawaii Tourist Guide listing all the business names on each of the islands.... What was grown first in Puna and Hamakua.... sugar or coffee? Who started the first sugar plantation? Any questions.....Call 1-808-959-4769 or send us an email mohbi04@yahoo.com Big Island sugar industry started in the 1850's.