bought Lanai and started a pineapple plantation on the island. For much of the 20th century, Lanai was famous for its pineapple production, earning the nickname “The Pineapple Island.” ...

In the 1920s, Dole turned Lanai into “Pineapple Island,” and for a time it produced 75% of the world’s supply of that fruit. The island still has many brightly colored plantation homes dating to that ...

His paternal grandparents moved from Maui to Lanai and his maternal grandparents moved from Kauai to Lanai to work for the “princely sum of 10 cents more a day on the new pineapple plantation.” ...

The Hokuao project would build 76 affordable and 74 market-rate rental homes on about 76 acres of former pineapple fields neighboring Lanai City ... the original plantation-style homes that ...

Lanai is known as the "Pineapple Island" because it once was home to a plantation that produced 75% of the world's pineapples. In 1922, pineapple tycoon James Drummond Dole purchased most of the ...