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Kalaupapa National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located in Kalaupapa, Hawaiʻi, on the island of Molokaʻi.Coterminous with the boundaries of Kalawao County [citation needed] and primarily on Kalaupapa peninsula, it was established by Congress in 1980 to expand upon the earlier National Historic Landmark site of the Kalaupapa Leper Settlement.
The communities where people with leprosy lived were under the administration of the Board of Health, which appointed superintendents on the island. Kalaupapa is located on the Kalaupapa Peninsula at the base of sea cliffs that rise 2,000 feet (610 m) above the Pacific Ocean. In the 1870s a community to support the leper colony was established ...
Kalaupapa, now a refuge for those who still call the peninsula home, was once the government’s answer to a deadly leprosy outbreak in the 1800s that persisted into the next century.
An estimated 8, 000 islanders were banished to Kalaupapa on Molokai's isolated peninsula after being diagnosed with Hansen's disease, then known as leprosy, from 1866 to 1969, when policies that ...
Kalaupapa National Historical Park on the north side of Molokaʻi was the site of forced isolation for patients with leprosy. At this national park in Hawaiʻi, a natural paradise and a medical ...
Leprosy stigma is a type of social stigma, ... In 1865, the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement was founded on the island of Molokai, ...
The Kalaupapa Leper Settlement The advent of leprosy (also known as Hansen's Disease) in the Hawaiian Islands brought separation and immense sadness to the Hawaiian people. The disease was brought to the islands in the mid-1800s and was widespread by the 1860s. [ 13 ]
Hawaii's Kalaupapa, a former leprosy colony, has reopened to sponsored visits from family and friends of residents.