Arcadia Publishing

Laura Ruby and Ross W. Stephenson

Softcover, 127 pp.

Walk down Mamane Street, the heart of Honokaʻa Town, and be transported back into the late 19th and early 20th century. Honokaʻa's single-wall, wooden plantation-era buildings are as much a symbol of Hawaii to locals as Diamond Head is to tourists. The commercial buildings have their emblematic false fronts and totan (corrugated iron) cladding. They contained, and still contain, mom-and-pop businesses that were founded upon personal relationships, required the labor of whole families, and provided for the education of the next generation. The small size of the town encouraged cross-pollination of peoples. Sugar workers, paniolos (cowboys), coffee farmers, and homesteaders all came to Honokaʻa. Learn about the history of this important place in Honokaʻa Town.