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In 1849, George Wilfong started the first sugar plantation on this part of the coast and many other operations soon followed. Sugar was king here until World War II, when C. Brewer & Co. decided to close down the largest plantation in Hana. Paul Fagan, an entrepreneur from San Francisco,… |
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stepped in to create new opportunities for the town. Sensing that sugar would not provide security for the future generations of Hana, Fagan purchased 14,000 acres of land and shipped in cattle to create The Hana Ranch in 1944. |
