Hakalau is a small unincorporated improve positioned along the Hamakua coast about 15 miles (24 km) north of Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii in the U.S.
Hakalau was once a thriving, multiethnic sugarcane plantation town up until the early 1960s when the plantation originally called Hakalau Plantation Company began to decline.
The privately owned sugar plantation supervisors home assembled in the early 20th century still exists, along with two warehouses assembled in 1920 and an old theater, operating as the Hakalau postal service, postal code 96710. Located just below the ocean cliff where the Hakalau stream meets the bay, the old sugar foundry ruins are still visible.
Hakalau now has a small, day use, county owned park with picnic tables and ocean access for recreational use, positioned at the bottom of the Hakalau gulch. As with most Hawaii, immigrants from China and elsewhere populated the Hawaiian Islands.
The initial Chinese immigrants to Hawaii Island were Punti and landed at Kohala on Hawaii Island.
The store, and later the area, became known as Hakalau, titled after the tall Hakka proprietor and his actual name of Lau Sung Iu, owner of the general store.
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