I’m John Cross

I have been working in Hawaiian agriculture for over 50 years. Attached are a series of articles I wrote describing the history of Sugar Cane production in Hawaii, called “Old Plantation Days”.

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8-2010 How about before we even knew there was going to be plantations…

10-2010 More on the beginnings of Sugarcane on the Big Island  Old Plantation Days

12-2010 ZIPLINES AND OLD PLANTATION DAYS!?

3-2011 History of the Flumes!

5-2011 Cattle Ranches

8-2011 THE GUYS AND GALS IN THE OFFICE…SO YOU WANNA GET PAID?!

10-2011 PLANTATION INTRAMURAL BASEBALL Old Plantation Days

12-2011 Sugarcane Haulers and Mud on the Highway (and your car)!

2-2012 Relics of Plantation Engineering

4-2012 Hawaiian Sugar Canes

7-2012 Energy Crisis in Old Plantation Days

9-2012 Dawn of Electricity for Plantations

11-2012 Where did all the Sugar Plantations and Mills Go?

1-2013 The Water Tunnels of Ka’u

6-2013 The Workers

7-2013 Of Airstrips, Crop Dusters, and Pilots

9-2013 Pua Ko, Sugarcane Flowers

11-2013 THE ONOMEA “SKY CAR”

1-2014 Working the Nightshift

2-2014 The OTHER Plantation in Old Plantation Days

7 -2014 Plantation Resort Developments

9-2014 Flumes

11-2014 Sugar Transport on the High Seas

1-2015 IT’S OFF SEASON TIME!

3-2015 A Photograph of Every House

5-2015 HAPAI KO ! and other terms of Sugarcane’s Past…

7-2015 Sensory Reminiscence

9-2015 IT’S PARTY TIME, PLANTATION STYLE!

10-2015 Revitalizing our Plantation Communities

11-2015 The Hawaiian Citizen

11-2015a Treasure Maps

12-2015 Lost Plantations

1-2016 Men, Women, Mules and Oxen

2-2016 Captain Thomas Spencer: Master, Whaleship Triton and Manager, Amau’ulu Sugar Plantation

4-2016 Charles N. Spencer of HILEA, Ka’u6-2016 M. M. O’Shaughnessy

5-2016 The Hawaiian Planter’s Record

6-2016 M. M. O’Shaughnessy