01/24/2005 - Aloha!  Here is a photo of an old sugar mill. It has since been abandoned, but was in use for many years prior to its neglect. Here is some history of the sugar industry in Hawaii.

"In 1850, the Hawaiian legislature approved the hiring of immigrant laborers from Japan, China, the Philippines and Portugal to work in the booming sugar industry. The ethnic diversity of the inhabitants of today's Hawaii reflects the diversity of these immigrant laborers. Ultimately, the importation of workers and the changes in land ownership laws took land away from many natives, land which was instead bought up for sugar mills. The first sugar plantation in Hawaii, the Koloa Plantation on Kauai, was founded in 1835, initiating an explosion in the sugar industry as mills began to appear all over the islands." Enjoy!