Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Alright.
Here’s Waipunalei.
Is that Waipunalei
Yes.
Alright, but from Waipunalei coming towards Waimea, it goes past the big eucalyptus
grove or big tree grove, there’s a curve. I saw those paving stones there coming down.
Yes.
But anyway, Bill Bryan thinks, he was not one hundred percent positive, but he said, “I’m
pretty sure that the German’s did that for their wagons.”
Yes. It’s interesting because Hitchcock them were there earlier, they had Pua‘äkala, and
in fact, if we think about it for a moment. You mentioned Doctor’s Pit, Kaluakauka
Yes.
A little between Kaluakauka, just a short distance from there before Keanakolu Cabin,
though. There’s a hill and there’s some old stone enclosures, the caves, do you know
Yes, but what I have in mind is that, that’s directly mauka of the doctor’s pit.
Yes, you’re right, almost directly mauka.
The old road is between the doctor’s pit and there
Did you hear about…were those old cabins I was wondering, if those were Hitchcock’s
They were hunting bullocks and stuff, I think in the 1850s
I’ve always understood that, that area where those stone corrals are, that was the
original Keanakolu.
Okay.
And later, they called this, where the log cabin is, Keanakolu.
That’s right. That log cabin was Parker Ranch cabin right Wasn’t there a koa cabin or
something, or was that somebody else’s
There’s koa logs, that massive big cabin is made with koa logs and when Bill Bryan took
me into it, it was lined with white canvas. He said after the Germans went out, it was
turned into a slaughter house.
Oh. Do you remember…Because that cabin is burned down now.
I remember what they called the cabin, was made of old logs. I always understood that,
that was put up by the CCC people.
Okay see, there is the older one though, where Eben Low lost his hand, the hämana…
Where there’s the corral and shearing shed
Yes, that’s the one that’s burned down.
That one burned down
Yes.
The old forest reserve…
Is still there. The CCC one, now that’s another interesting thing.
That’s the modern one
Yes.
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