PuunÃÂnÃÂ is an unincorporated community in the central part of Maui, Hawaii, United States (near Kahului), with a population of approximately 8. Although the land is fairly level, the Hawaiian name for the area means "goose hill", in reference to the endemic nÃÂnÃÂ (or Hawaiian goose, the state bird).
PuûunÃÂnÃÂ's primary industry was growing, harvesting and processing sugarcane for over a century, anchored by the HC&S sugar mill built in 1901, but production ceased in 2016. The multiple plantation camps making up the community were slowly dismantled during the late twentieth century as the plantation system declined. In 2019, a field of potatoes was planted by Mahi Pono where sugar cane used to be grown. This initial planting was the beginning of using these fallow lands to increase local food production.
Notable people from PuûunÃÂnàinclude Mary Louise Kekuewa.
The Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum is housed in the former residence of the superintendent of Puûunene Sugar Mill, which the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (a division of Alexander & Baldwin) operated across the street since 1901. Its mission is "to preserve and present the history and heritage of Hawaii's sugar industry, and the multi-ethnic plantation life which it engendered." Also located in PuûunÃÂnàis the PuûunÃÂnàSchool, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
About to the south of PuûunÃÂnàis the site of a former Naval Air Station (1940âÂÂ1947),. This would later be known as PuâÂÂunÃÂnàAirport, and was the site for the second Maui Airport, after Maalaea, and part of the struggle to achieve an adequate landing strip of the Island of Maui for Hawaiian Airlines to use. An old runway is now used as a drag strip for Maui Raceway Park.
PuûunÃÂnÃÂ's ZIP code is 96784. The mill is located at , just east of Mokulele Highway, Hawaii Route 311.