

Drive South on the 50 7 miles. Make a left on Maluhia Rd. (520) (the Tree Tunnel road). Continue 3 miles on Maluhia into Koloa Town. The History Center is in the Old Koloa Town Mall.

Koloa Town, in the heart of the South Shore resort area, was once the site of Hawaii's first successful sugar plantation. Though sugar has long been replaced by tourism as the community's economic mainstay, evidence of those colorful plantation days lives on in its restored buildings, its history center and its churches, one -- St. Raphael's Roman Catholic Church -- dating back to 1841.