Puaʻa-2 Agricultural Fields Archeological District

Puaʻa-two Agricultural Fields Archeological District on Hawaiʻi Island preserves evidence of ancient Hawaiian agriculture within the ahupuaʻa of Puaʻa two on a thirty-five-acre Kona coffee farm. A nineteen eighty-five survey documented stone platforms, agricultural terraces, and a fifty by one hundred-foot feature thought to have been an agricultural heiau, indicating a cultivated landscape where farming and ritual were linked in traditional land use. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October fourteen, nineteen eighty-six. Its later history includes damage in two thousand after a permit was mistakenly issued to clear the land for coffee planting while archaeologist vacancies left officials and owners unaware of the site's presence.

Holualoa, Hawaii · United States