Who We Are:
The Kona Historical Society is a community-based, non-profit organization, whose mission is to collect, preserve, interpret and disseminate the history of the Kona districts. Founded in 1976 by a small group of residents the Society has grown to over one thousand members nationwide.

The Society maintains two historic sites, a research archive and provides public history programs through its off-road tours, lectures, living history programs and historic preservation. The Society's core collections include the Jean Greenwell Collection, which documents land use in Kona prior to 1900, an extensive photograph collection and the Kona Coffee Study Collection.