07-27-2018, 03:19 AM
The industrial park in Hilo is and always has been State land - most of it DLNR. Shipman owned land in Puna -Keaau - not Hilo.
Shipman, from what I can tell, may own the land under the Keaau Shopping Center but leases the land to others.
Shipman were ranchers - no indication that they had anything to do with pakalolo, dumping arsenic (used by Puna Sugar - a leassee of Shipman). Puna Sugar owned some land including land where Keaau Ag lots now are, land under the old mill and the plantation manager's house. Coming from missionary and Hawaiian roots, they were here long before hippies and the like.
You say nothing about 8.5 mile camp, 9 mile camp and 9.5 mile camp - all on land that was owned by Shipman that they all but donated to the camp associations as sugar wound down to make sure that those living there would not end up homeless.
Shipman, from what I can tell, may own the land under the Keaau Shopping Center but leases the land to others.
Shipman were ranchers - no indication that they had anything to do with pakalolo, dumping arsenic (used by Puna Sugar - a leassee of Shipman). Puna Sugar owned some land including land where Keaau Ag lots now are, land under the old mill and the plantation manager's house. Coming from missionary and Hawaiian roots, they were here long before hippies and the like.
You say nothing about 8.5 mile camp, 9 mile camp and 9.5 mile camp - all on land that was owned by Shipman that they all but donated to the camp associations as sugar wound down to make sure that those living there would not end up homeless.