For almost 70 years, Lanai was the world’s largest working pineapple plantation, cultivating some 20,000 acres. In 1961, Castle & Cooke bought Dole Foods and began planning new resort and ...

Dole Corporation and Pineapple Plantation In 1922, James D. Dole (the founder of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, later known as Dole Food Company) bought Lanai and started a pineapple plantation ...

bought Lanai for $1.1 million in 1922, and the island became the largest pineapple plantation in the world, responsible for growing 75% of its pineapples. Lanai City, a small town of approximately ...

He changed Lanai's nickname from "The Pineapple Island" to "Hawaii's Private Island." Among the pines on a hill above Lanai City he built the 102-room Lodge at Koele in the manner of an English ...

LANAI CITY, Hawaii — Money talks on Lanai, as it does everywhere, but it may speak a little more loudly on this 13-by-18-mile speck of an island wedged between Molokai, Maui and Kahoolawe. If ...

The former Dole pineapple plantation is now home to two Four ... (800) 795-7211, www.hotel lanai.com. Old Hawaii charm in plantation-style establishment dating from 1923. Standard rooms ...

Dole commissioned the Lanai Theater in 1926, but like the pineapple industry, it went bust in the 1990s. Two years – and a $4 million renovation – after Ellison’s arrival, the bijou was ...

The Lanai Culture & Heritage Center launched a new virtual exhibit as part of its centennial celebration that commemorates the plantation life that began when the island was purchased by ...

Some might remember Lanai as the "pineapple island," once owned by Dole and home to the world's largest pineapple plantation, but most recently, Oracle's Larry Ellison purchased 97 percent of the ...

Paved roads are few and far between on Lanai, pineapple king James Dole’s plantation, which is now owned by tech titan Larry Ellison, who purchased 97 percent of the island in 2012.

One of Hawaii’s oldest and biggest former pineapple producers is getting back into the farming business with a crop used to ...