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Kona Coffee Living History Farm is located on the Daisaku Uchida Coffee Farm, in the Kona District, on the Big Island of Hawaii. The historic Kona coffee farm first established in 1900. The open-air agriculture museum depicts the daily lives of early Japanese immigrants to Hawaii during the period of 1920-1945.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work= Kona Historical Society web site )〕 It is located at coordinates , the area now known as Captain Cook, but the traditional land division (''ahupuaa'') known as Kealakekua. ==History== The farm was owned by Daisaku Uchida, who came to Hawaii from southern Japan at the age of 19 on September 27, 1906. After a three-year sugar contract at Līhue Plantation on Kauai, Daisaku came to the Kona District. Between 1868 and 1924, more than 140,000 Japanese workers came to Hawaii with labor contracts at sugar plantation. Many, like Uchida, decided to leave the plantations and start their own family businesses when their contract expired. In 1912, Daisaku married his cousin, Shima Maruo. They moved to the farm in 1913, expanding it and the house in 1925. The land was owned by the Greenwell family. Henry Nicholas Greenwell had been in the coffee trading business in the area since the 1870s. The Uchida family lived here until Shima died at the age of 73 in 1966, and Daisaku in 1986 at the age of 99. Three children were born in the original house, and three in the new one after 1925. The eldest son Masao Uchida also farmed the property until he and his wife Masako retired to Honolulu in 1994.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kona Coffee Living History Farm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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