Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company Mill


Fields of cane expand out from the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar (C&S) Company’s rusty old mill, the last of its kind in Hawaii. Its industrial hulk looms high, and, until recently, belched smoke as it was boiling down sugarcane. It remains as a monument to a past era.

Although the factory has ceased trading, the Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum remains open and tells the story of the industry's rise and fall on Maui.


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