Kekaha, factually speaking…

Welcome to Kekaha, “The Place” and "The Garden Town of the Garden Island". So, what’s noteworthy about this town? Well, consider the following:

Because of its geographical location, it is the furthest southwestern-most small town with a U.S. Post Office.

Kekaha’s the place where the one and only “train robbery” in all of Hawaii took place in the 1920’s with the sugar company’s payroll on the way to Mana! The perpetrator "loved" western movies and became a victim of the "powers of suggestion"!

Rumor has it, that mangoes get to be the tastiest and most succulent because of the consistently hot, dry weather.

It once featured the first Olympic-size community-voluntarily-built swimming pool on the island of Kauai. We have pictures to prove this!

The first traffic light on the island of Kauai was installed in Kekaha to monitor traffic between cane trucks and tour busses at an inter-section between a cane haul dirt road and Kokee Road.

One has to pass by or through Kekaha to get to the landfill for the entire island.

It’s the closest community to the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), the strategic defense entity for the entire free world on planet Earth!

Even if it’s mainly a “bedroom community”, Kekaha is the fourth largest town on the island of Kauai.

Kekaha also had it's own dentist's office maintained by Dr. Nitta. There was also a public health office or building across from the Kekaha Theater, now site of the Kekaha Community Federal Credit Union which must be the furthest southwest in the USA!

In it’s heyday, Kekaha once had four gas stations, a number of restaurants and bars, a movie theater, three barber shops, two hair salons, a nightclub, a community skating rink as well as tennis courts, occasional boxing and wrestling matches; it’s own community football, basketball,baseball and tennis teams, and a goodly number of volunteer advisors for Boys and Girls Scouts, the 4-H Clubs, Hi-Y and Y-Teen youth groups. What's more, from east to west---there was Papalekoa Store...Kekaha Store, Kuramoto Store, Nitta Store, Takanishi Store #1 (along the dirt roads) and Takanishi Store on Kekaha Street, Nitta Store, the Mira's Sweetshop that became the Apilado's Shave Ice Stand!

Kekaha had it's own gun club, martial arts groups, Rizal Day Celebrations, 4th of July Carnivals, rodeos, community theater group, fishing tournaments, and weekly amateur-hour talent contests on Tuesday nights at Kekaha Theater before the main feature attraction!