Captain John Kidwell founded the first pineapple plantation, but failed,
because of lack of either fast transportation or preserving technology.
James Dole, just a few years later, was a little luckier. He's plowing his 
first pineapple field on O'ahu in this photo (on the right). It didn't take
long before he bought almost the entire Island of Lanai. 
"The Pineapple Island" is still the nickname of Lanai and the 
Dole Company still owns most of it.

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