Kona Coffee Living History Farm
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Uchida Coffee Farm
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Historic coffee mill
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| Location | Kona District, Hawaii |
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| Coordinates | 19°29′24″N 155°54′49″W / 19.49000°N 155.91361°WCoordinates: 19°29′24″N 155°54′49″W / 19.49000°N 155.91361°W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | 1913 |
| NRHP Reference # | 94001621 |
| Added to NRHP | February 9, 1995 |
Kona Coffee Living History Farm is located on the Daisaku Uchida Coffee Farm, in the Kona District, on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. The 5.5-acre (22,000 m2) historic Kona coffee farm first established in 1900.
The open-air agriculture museum depicts the daily lives of early Japanese immigrants to Hawaii during the period of 1920-1945. It is located at coordinates 19°29′24″N 155°54′49″W / 19.49000°N 155.91361°W, the area now known as Captain Cook, but the traditional land division (ahupuaʻa) known as Kealakekua.
The farm was owned by Daisaku Uchida, who came to Hawaii from southern Japan at the age of 19 on September 27, 1906. After a three-year sugar contract at Līhuʻe Plantation on Kauaʻi, Daisaku came to the Kona District.
Between 1868 and 1924, more than 140,000 Japanese workers came to Hawaii with labor contracts at sugarcane plantation. Many, like Uchida, decided to leave the plantations and start their own family businesses when their contract expired.
In 1912, Daisaku married his cousin, Shima Maruo. They moved to the farm in 1913, expanding it and the house in 1925. The land was owned by the Greenwell family. Henry Nicholas Greenwell had been in the coffee trading business in the area since the 1870s.
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