Final Archeological Assessment Hu Honua Bioenergy Facility

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PREVIOUS ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS Table 1 summarizes the previous archaeological investigations in vicinity of the current project area. Figure 7 illustrates the archaeological investigations on a topographic map. Somewhat sur vibrant locus of modern Hawaiian culture, there is a relative pa studies in the vicinity of Pepe`ekeo and the South Hilo district th vast amount of earth-altering activities that have taken place i century, which have destroyed much of the archaeological surface region. Of the few archaeological surveys that have taken place of them covered the entirety of the subject parcel, TMK: (3) 2-8 (3) 2-8-007: 053). In what may have been East Hawai`is first archaeological study, an employee of B.P. Bishop Museum, undertook a research project Archaeology in East Hawaii being written circa 1932. Although the book has remained an unpublished manuscript, portions of it can be found in Rosend manuscript, Hudson interviewed two men named Henry Lyman and Olin Wilson. Mr. Lyman informed Hudson that he believed that there may have been of the managers house at Pepe`ekeo plantation (Hudson n.d.: 221 lived in the house at that time, knew nothing of a heiau. Hudson also noted that a previous study by H.W. Kinney in 1913 r former burial cave at Pepe`ekeo Landing. Kinneys use of the t th that, to his knowledge, there were no longer burials in the cave century. It is also possible that the cave itself was impacted or demolis infrastructure was established. In any case, the Landing is loca property at TMK: (3) 2-8-8: 151. In the early 1970s, circa 1973, Hawai`i State Parks employee Joh documented a number of historic buildings in Pepe`ekeo, creating District. Wright drafted a plan view map of the Pepe`ekeo Clinic photographed several buildings in the District. The buildings in clinic, Mill office, landing platform, gym, Catholic Church, pla housing and a plantation-era flume. (Figure 5, 6 and Appendix I) the district was not placed on the Hawai`i Register of Historic remain on the State Inventory of Historic Places (SIHP) as SIHP one of the historic buildings, the Mill office, was documented a studys subject parcel. However, Hawai`i Countys real property parcel currently only contains a single building which was erect In 2002, Paul H. Rosendahl, Ph.D, Inc. (PHRI) conducted two fiel vicinity of the subject parcel. The field checks included survey Plantation Parcels at (3) 2-8-07: 1, 2 & 53 as well as TMK: (3) 1, which were a coastal surveys of the makai lands between Pepe`ekeo and Pohakumanu Bay. Two plantation era cemeteries, which can be foun maps, were encountered during the coastal inspection: a Japanes Alia Stream, and a Chinese Cemetery north of Makea Stream. Bot 13