Kaupulehu, Hawaii

[5] In 1790, local chief Kameʻeiamoku met Captain Simon Metcalfe on the Eleanora who was spending the winter during a maritime fur trading mission.

[6] About five or six weeks later the Eleanora's smaller tender Fair American, a schooner under command of his son Thomas Humphrey Metcalfe arrived.

[7] Kamehameha decided to spare the lives of Davis and Young, who became valued military advisors during his subsequent battles and negotiations with later visitors.

The Fair American, with its cannons operated by Davis and Young, led to the victory in the Battle of Kepaniwai back on Maui, and the eventual conquest of all the islands.

The area was fairly uninhabited until Texas investor John H. Jackson constructed his Kona Village Resort in 1961.

The resort makes use of natural materials indigenous to Hawaii, including rattan, bamboo and lava rock.

It was among the 100 of Travel + Leisure's world's best resorts awards in a readers poll in 2007, 2008, and 2009,[11] and ranked in several "top lists" by Zagat Surveys.

Golf Magazine ranked the course one of the best in America to play in 2002 and it annually hosts the Champions Tour's Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai.

[17] In 1999 another golf course and expensive vacation home development was built to the south called Kūkiʻo, and then expanded to the north in 2007.