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Summary of Purpose <br />Southwestern United States and the Sugar Plantation railroads in Hawaii <br />n <br />The majority of the early residents were Japanese immigrants who came to Hawaii on a 3 <br />year worker's contract. Those few who decided to stay after their 3 year contract expired <br />and had managed to save enough money, built simple wood houses on stilts with wide <br />lanais, gabled style, metal clad roofs and redwood catchment systems located at the back <br />of the lot. The rest of the immigrants lived in 6 Camps provided by the lumber mill. <br />Virtually all the buildings along the main town road in the early 1900's housed some type <br />of business offering from shoe repair to hotel lodging. <br />There was very little private land ownership in the early years as the majority of the land <br />was owned by the Roman Catholic Mission, the lumber mill and the Territory of Hawaii, <br />so most of the land being utilized for private residential and commercial purposes was <br />leased. When land ownership finally became available in the late 1930's the lots were <br />very small to several acres and haphazardly laid out as there was no such thing as land <br />planning. Electrical power did not come to Pahoa until 1938 and domestic water in <br />1962. ii <br />4 1 P a g e <br />