photo by Dave Boyle NPS

Captain Brown’s Kahuku Ranch on the big island of Hawai’i is now part of the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, complete with a hiking trail in the area of the 1868 flow around the site of the homestead.

Click here for a trail guide to the park.
(We couldn’t be more delighted to see this site listed in the list of resources for more information!)

(click on the article for a larger view)

This article about the installation of the marker appeared in the Honolulu Advertiser, October 14, 1956. There are some historical inaccuracies (they met in Augusta, W.A. – not Fremantle, he was only a 3rd mate then, they were married in Connecticut – not on his ship, and they were already living in the islands when he lost the Black Warrior), but most of the article is true enough.

In a letter to her daughter, Mrs. Rothwell gives her own account of placing the marker.

photo by Dave Boyle NPS

Ranch site marker as it appears today.

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photo by Dave Boyle NPS

A scene from the 1869 flow, once Captain Brown’s back yard .

photo by Dave Boyle NPS

This yellow-white Lehua is near the site of the Brown home in Kahuku.
The Lehua grows only in Hawai’i. Learn more about it here.

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