Lapakahi State Historical Park is a large area of ruins from an

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an fishing village in the

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District on the

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.Lapakahi State Historical Park
brochure on Hawaii State Park web site Offshore is the Lapakahi Marine Life Conservation District. The name ''lapa kahi'' means "single ridge" in the

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, and applied to the ahupuaa, an ancient land division that ran from the sea up to

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. It is located off of

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(Route 270), north of

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. It is state archaeological site 10-02-2245, and was added to the

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on July 2, 1973, as site 73000654. Just to the north, Māhukona Beach Park is on a bay where raw sugar from a local sugar mill was shipped to San Francisco.

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