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The 3.5-mile (5.6 km) Kalaupapa Pali Trail is the only land access into Kalaupapa. The trail consists of 26 switchbacks with a 2,000-foot (610 m) elevation change over the course of the trail. The National Park Service describes the hike as extremely strenuous due to the steep, uneven surfaces and varied trail conditions. [ 18 ]
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.
Ambrose Hutchison was born in Honomāʻele, Hāna, Maui, in 1856, the son of Ferdinand William Hutchison and Maria or Malie Moa, a Native Hawaiian woman. [3] [4] [5] His father, originally from Edinburgh, was an influential politician during the reign of King Kamehameha V and served as president of the Board of Health during the early development and management of the Kalaupapa Leprosy ...
William Phileppus Ragsdale [note 1] (c. 1837 – November 24, 1877) was a Hawaiian lawyer, newspaper editor, and translator. He was a popular figure known for being luna or superintendent of the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement.
Kalaupapa: 2.079: 5.385: 65 West side of Kalaupapa peninsula. Includes a section of Molokaʻi's coast further west Makanalua: 3.229: 8.363: 8 Strip of land in the center of the peninsula that runs to its northern tip. Includes Kalaupapa Airport. Kalawao: 3.294: 8.531: 9 Eastern coast of Kalaupapa peninsula and Waialeia Valley to the southeast ...
The Leper War on Kauaʻi also known as the Koʻolau Rebellion, Battle of Kalalau, or the short name, the Leper War.Following the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the stricter government enforced the 1865 "Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy" carried out by Attorney General and President of the Board of Health William Owen Smith.
In the late 1880s, he found he had contracted leprosy and fled to Kalalau Valley leading a number of other lepers. Following the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the Provisional Government forcibly relocated many lepers.
William Keolaloa Kahānui Sumner, Jr. was born circa 1816, the eldest son of Captain William Sumner (1786–1847) and High Chiefess Keakua'aihue Kanealai Hua. Captain Sumner, from Northampton, was an early settler of Hawaii who arrived in 1807 as a cabin boy.