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The Plantation Camp RegistryThe Sugar Museum’s Plantation Camp Registry is a new listing that contains the names of people who lived and worked in the sugar plantation camps on Maui. A number of years ago, the Sugar Museum put maps of the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co.(HC&S) and Maui Agricultural Co. (MACo) plantation camps into its gallery along with a registry form for former camp residents or their families to fill out. This was the start of the Plantation Camp Registry. People whose family lived in a camp, can fill out the form with information about which camp it was, the number of the house they lived in and for how long, the names of family members, nearby neighbors and other information. The Registry includes plantation camps in Pu‘unēnē, Sprecklesville, Pā‘ia, Hamakua Poko and Kihei. Wailuku and Lahaina were added to the form in 2008. Although the museum does not have the camp maps of these plantations, hopefully they will be obtained in the future. The total number of people who lived in the camps over the years is unknown. However, The Hawaii Sugar Manual (A.B. Gilmore 1939) provides the following figures: The HC&S plantation census of 1939 reported a grand total population of 7,973, and the MACo Plantation (Pā‘ia) reported a population of about 6,500. HC&S reported occupancy of 1,545 houses and MACo had approximately 1,500 houses. The completed forms are added into an accessible Plantation Camp Registry database, available to anyone who is interested in this information. It will serve as an important historical record and as a resource for historians, scholars, writers, researchers, students, and all who want a look into the past. Another important function of the Registry will be to help camp “alumni” families to find each other again. The Plantation Camp Registry listing is still under construction and we hope to have it available on this website at a later date. Open
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