The family of early coffee merchant Henry Nicholas Greenwell owned a large ranch on the western side of the volcano.
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Kamakahonu, Holualoa Bay, and Keauhou Bay were favored retreats of Hawaiian royalty long before the westernization of Hawaii.
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Many of the collapse craters in particular have vegetation, and a few even have respectably-sized "vertical forests" inside, including several Eucalyptus tree groves.