ISLAND HISTORY: A brief history of Puhi Camp, Kauai

ISLAND HISTORY: A brief history of Puhi Camp, Kauai

Although previously published articles indicate that Grove Farm’s employee housing Puhi Camp (c. 1917-1980s) was built during the 1920s, newspaper accounts I’ve recently uncovered reveal activity at Puhi Camp as early as 1917. Puhi Camp once occupied a portion of what is now the campus of Kauai Community College (KCC). In its heyday, Puhi Camp consisted of about 600 houses occupied by nearly 1,200 Grove Farm workers and their families, many of w…