Manoa

Mānoa is an urban neighborhood community of Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA approximately three miles east and inland from downtown Honolulu and less than a mile from Ala Moana and Waikīkī. The neighborhood community is composed of private houses built previous to the 1960s and low-rise condominiums. Mānoa is home to the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, the flagship campus of the University of Hawai'i System. The civic center of Mānoa is the Mānoa Marketplace which features a farmer's market several days of the week.

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Honolulu, Hawai'i - USA - Downtown Honolulu - Ala Moana - Waikīkī - 1960s - University of Hawai'i at Mānoa - University of Hawai'i System - Civic center

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Mānoa is the site of the first sugarcane and coffee plantations in the Hawaiian Islands. John Wilkinson planted the first crops in 1825. Today, coffee is one of the most precious agricultural products from Hawai'i. Hawai'i is the only state that produces coffee commercially in the country.

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Sugarcane - Coffee - Hawaiian Islands - 1825

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