Aloha and E Komo Mai. 'History in Motion!' is the official news-blog of History Education Hawaii, Inc., the allied state council of the National Council for History Education (NCHE).
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Wo Hing Chinese Museum on Maui
This blog post caught our attention on LinkedIn:
Americans constructing the continental railroad, in the United States and creating sugar plantations in Hawaii discovered the value of the hard-working Chinese in the mid 1800s. As the Qing dynasty began its long decline in China, men immigrated to Hawaii without their families to build many of the infrastructures we still enjoy today. On Maui they made the Lahaina sea wall, tunnels through the mountains, the Road to Hana, and the irrigation systems for the sugar plantations.
You can read the rest of this blog post of Maui's Wo Hing Chinese Museum here.
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