Captain Cook, Hawaii Captain Cook, Hawaii Captain Cook is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaii County, Hawaii, in the United States, located in the District of South Kona. The community, within the land division of Kealakekua, is so named because the post office for the area was located in the Captain Cook Coffee Co. during the early 1900s. As of the 2010 census the CDP population was 3,429, up from 3,206 at the 2000 census. Captain Cook is located on the west side of the island of Hawaii at (19.498211, -155.904275). It is bordered to the north by Kealakekua and to the south
Captain Cook Hotel building was replaced by a shop in 1875, adjacent to Alfred Terrace erected in 1869 for George Wigram Allen of Glebe. However a photo dated 1870-71 clearly shows the completed Captain Cook Hotel together with a legible painted sign of the hotel’s name. The style of the pub with its overhanging eaves and hipped roofs would appear to predate Allen’s 1869 row of terraces, and given that the site was empty and unprepared in 1864, the Captain Cook Hotel must date from 1867. This photo shows the hotel as a couple of two storey terraces at the end of the