Editing Hana, Hawaii (section)

==History==
{{Further|History of Maui}}
[[File:Historic Mokus of Maui Map (Hana).svg|thumb|left|upright|The ancient district of Hāna]]
[[File:Modern Districts of Maui Map (Hana).svg|thumb|left|upright|The modern district of Hāna]]
Like most of Hawaii, Hāna was probably first settled between 500 and 800 AD by [[Polynesian people]]s.<ref name="Hanamaui.com">{{cite web |title=Hana Chronology |url=http://www.hanamaui.com/history/ |access-date=November 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117011056/http://www.hanamaui.com/history/ |archive-date=November 17, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The first [[sugarcane]] [[Sugar plantations in Hawaii|plantation]] in the area was established by [[George Wilfong]] in 1849, and by 1883 there were six plantations operating in the area. By 1946, however, the last sugarcane plantation had closed, leading plantation workers to move mostly to the west side of Maui. That same year saw the opening of the Ka{{okina}}uiki Inn, later known as the Hotel Travaasa – Hana and today as the Hyatt Hana-Maui Resort, which helped transition the economy towards tourism.<ref name="Hanamaui.com"/>

The winding, famously scenic [[Hana Highway]] was completed in 1926. Originally paved with gravel, it provided the first land vehicle access to the town. Hāna's population peaked in the first half of the twentieth century, with a population of about 3,500.<ref name="Hanamaui.com"/>