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 FIRST - Scandinavian Migration to Hawaii - Maui, HI Posted by:  silverquill
N 20° 46.660 W 156° 31.392
4Q E 757850 N 2299519
This simple brass plaque is on a rock is located at McGregor Point near a lighthouse on the road to Lahaina, Maui, commemorating the arrival of the ship Beta and the first Scandinavian immigrants to Hawaii, who cane to work in the sugar cane fields.
Waymark Code: WMAH8G
Location: Hawaii, United States
Date Posted: 01/16/2011
Views: 9
This monument commemorates
the arrival of the Norwegian
barque Beta which dropped
anchor near this spot on
February 18, 1881, and of her
sister ship Musca, which
arrived in Honolulu
May 13, 1881. They brought
more than six hundred
Norwegians, Swedes and
Danes to work in the sugar
cane fields and mills of the
Hawaiian Kingdom - the first
and only mass migration
of Scandinavians to
these islands for their
contribution to the life
of the island, as well as
those of their countrymen
who proceeded or followed,
our mahalo and aloha.
The Scandinavian Centennial
Commission, February 14, 1981,
the centennial date.
This monument was restored in
the year 2006, in celebration of
the 125th anniversary of the
Scandinavians' arrival in Hawaii.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 02/18/1881
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