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Ford Island, an islet in the middle of Pearl Harbor on Oʻahu, long held importance in Hawaiian tradition as Mokuʻumeʻume, a place tied to an ancient fertility rite, local legends, crop growing, and gathering pili grass. In the early nineteenth century Kamehameha I gave it to Francisco de Paula Marín, and after later passing through private ownership it took the name of Dr. Seth Porter Ford and became a sugarcane plantation. Its modern significance came with U.S. military use beginning in 1916 and Navy control by 1939. At the center of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, it became one of the harbor’s most significant historic sites and remains active today.
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