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    • Upcoming Events
    • About hakalauhome
    • Contact Us!
  • Yesterday
    • Timeline
    • Camps
    • Schools
    • Churches
    • Cemeteries
    • The Voice of Hakalau (Newspaper)
    • Work
    • Hamakua Roads in the 19th Century: Firsthand Accounts
    • Bridges
    • The Railroad
  • Today
    • Issues Today
    • Hakalau Farmers Market
    • Hakalau Jodo Mission Today
    • Honohina Hongwanji Today
    • Hakalau Reunions
    • Wailea Village Historic Preservation Community >
      • Cemetery Stewardship
      • Reviving Hakalau School
      • Senior Luncheons
      • Mochi Pounding
  • Tomorrow
    • Arsenic Remediation
    • Cliff Failures
    • Hāmākua CDP Action Committee

Kamaee Camps 

​ All 3 Kamaee Camps are included below.  They were vacant by the early 1960s.
The Camp Maps
​Created 1947

The Houses
​Photos Taken Early 1950s

Kamaee Mauka  
Location:  Drive mauka on Chin Chuck Road. Turn right off Chin Chuck Road onto Kamaee Road (no longer accessible), directly above Chin Chuck Stable Camp, for a distance of about a mile.  About 1200 feet elevation.

Camp size:  About 5 plantation-owned dwellings and another 10 privately owned dwellings.  Mauka Camp also included a Scout camp that served all Hakalau kids, and a community clubhouse.  All of plantation-owned dwellings were vacant by the early 1960s.
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Kamaee Mauka Camp (click map to enlarge)
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Kamaee Mauka Camp (click photo to see all houses)

Kamaee  Korean Camp
Location:  In a makai direction from Kamaee Mauka Camp about 2 miles, it was at about 300 feet elevation and near Kamaee Sugimoto Camp.  It could also be accessed from a road off Mamalahoa Hwy just past Hakalau Gulch going up the coast.

Camp size:  It included about 10 dwellings, all vacant by the early 1960s.
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Kamaee Korean Camp 
​(click map to enlarge)

Picture
Kamaee Korean Camp
​(click photo to see all houses)

Kamaee Sugimoto Camp 
Location:  In a makai direction from Kamaee Mauka Camp about 2 miles, it was at about 300 feet elevation and near Kamaee Korean Camp.  It could also be accessed from a road off Mamalahoa Hwy just past Hakalau Gulch going up the coast.

Camp size:  It included about 20 dwellings, all vacant by the early 1960s.
Picture
Kamaee Sugimoto Camp
​(click map to enlarge)
Picture
Kamaee Sugimoto Camp
​(click photo to see all houses)
For the Hakalau Kuleana, our responsibility is to care for the land, the people, and the culture. We are guided by the YESTERDAY'S cultural values: Engage in collective effort. Look out for each other. Honor hard work. Show respect for those who came before us. Aloha and Mālama `Aina.