This bay, now known as Coast Guard Station, is when the island’s very first Puerto Rican immigrants emerged. Darde Gamayo image.

On north tip of Hawai‘i area around the region now-known as coast-guard Station appears just a little memorial.

It commemorates the appearance in the first Puerto Rican plantations professionals which showed up here on Hawaii Island in 1901.

In August 1899, two hurricanes devastated the island of Puerto Rico. Twenty-eight days of steady rain broken the farming industry and remaining 3,000 dead and plenty without shelter, food or efforts.

This catastrophe lead to a glucose shortage in the field marketplace and an abrupt big demand from Hawai‘i along with other sugar-producing region.

Plantation proprietors started their particular campaign to generate professionals from Puerto Rico. In November 1900, the most important gang of Puerto Ricans—54 men—set out over result in the long-journey to Hawai‘i.