What historic neighborhoods are found in Kailua?
Verified: 2026-10-24
Quick answer
Coconut Grove, a former coconut plantation, and Lanikai, originally called Kaʻōhao.
Detailed answer
Coconut Grove began in the early 1900s as a coconut plantation producing copra; after that business failed in 1916 the land was sold, and subdivision of the Coconut Grove Tract began in 1924. Lanikai's earliest known Hawaiian name is Kaʻōhao, and the area was developed commercially in the 1920s and renamed Lanikai. Kailua grew quickly after World War II, and residential development roughly tripled its population in the 1950s.
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