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Kona Historical Society
Location: Captain Cook, Hawaii
Region: West
Website: http://www.konahistorical.org
Description: The Kona Historical Society was founded in 1976 to collect, preserve, and disseminate information about Kona's unique island heritage. The Society offers a variety of education programs and dynamic exhibits and holds over 40,000 photos, artifacts and publications in their collection. Currently, the museum and headquarters are located at the Greenwell Store which was established in 1875 and is on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. The society also operates a Coffee Living History Farm, a 7-acre working coffee farm first homesteaded in 1900. The site includes an authentic farm house built in 1925 by Japanese coffee pioneers during the industry's heyday.
Profile: In its affiliation, the Kona Historical Society is collaborating with the Smithsonian Institution on artifact loans and programming that complement the Society's goals of documenting and disseminating the history of Kona. In particular, the Historical Society provides a portal to Kona's past through living history programs at a coffee farm interpreting farm life in Kona between 1920-1945, a ranch depicting ranching in Kona between 1870-1917, and the Greenwell Store interpreting merchant life in the 1890s.
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