In 1835, Ladd & Co. is the first successful sugar plantation company in Hawaii and marked the beginning of the sugar industry. Ladd & Co. began their sugar company in Koloa, Kauai, in which they signed a lease with King Kamehameha III for a 980 acres of land. The Founders of Ladd & Co. wanted to fortune for the sugar that they created.
“Sugar provided the Hawaiian Islands with a foundation, playing a key part in bringing the Islands into a cosmopolitan society.”
Sugar became the dominant industry on all the major islands, which led to the demand for labor, which later outstripped the local supply, workers were recruited from China and Japan, and then followed by Portuguese, Koreans and Filipinos.…