Onomea Bay

Long ago, Onomea Bay was a fishing village, then became a rough-water seaport in the 1800's, and later was inhabited by Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos who came to work in the sugar cane fields and help build the Onomea Sugar Mill. In the early 1900's, Onomea was deserted, and vegetation grew so densely that few signs of habitation could be seen. When the area was first being cleared, an old and dignified gravesite was discovered. Its origin has never been authenticated, although some old-timers believed it may have belonged to a caretaker's family, since a cement-made gravesite would not have predated the 1900's.

Papaikou, Hawaii · United States