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Spreckelsville Mill, MauiDescription
Spreckelsville Mill, Maui
In 1878, Spreckels founded Spreckelsville, a company town along the northern shore of Maui. To do so, he purchased and leased 40,000 acres (160 km2) of land. That same year, Spreckels incorporated the Hawaiian Commercial Company with Hermann Schussler, a San Francisco area engineer best known for overseeing construction of the Crystal Springs Reservoir. In 1882, the company was reincorporated as the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company (HC&S).[29] By 1892, Spreckelsville was the largest sugarcane plantation in the world[28] and employed thousands of immigrant farm laborers from Japan,[30] Korea,[31] China,[32] and other countries.
By 1892, Spreckelsville was the largest sugarcane plantation in the world,[3] and employed thousands of immigrant farm laborers from Japan,[9] Korea,[10] China,[11] and other countries, who often lived in squalid conditions.
In 1902, HC&S closed the Spreckelsville mill and moved its main operations to Puʻunene.
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