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The Hilo Farmers Market was started on this block in 1988, held every Wednesday and Saturday at the end of Mamo Street. [12] The building was listed as state historic site 10-35-7420 on January 14, 1989 [ 13 ] and added to the National Register of Historic Places listings on the island of Hawaii on August 27, 1991 as site 91001087. [ 1 ]
A breakwater across Hilo Bay was begun in the first decade of the 20th century and completed in 1929. On April 1, 1946, an 8.6-magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands created a 46-foot-high (14 m) tsunami that hit Hilo 4.9 hours later, killing 159 total in the islands, [10] with 96 deaths in Hilo alone.
From Coconut Island one has a great view of Hilo Bayfront, Downtown Hilo, and the rest of Hilo Bay. To the east, you can see the massive breakwater protecting Hilo Bay. It is located at coordinates 19°43′36″N 155°4′6″W / 19.72667°N 155.06833°W / 19.72667; -155.06833
The Molokai Community started out with a total of 40 projects for Ke ʻAupuni Lokahi to work on and to provide funding to. There had been some undeniable successes realized by the Enterprise Community Grant on Molokai, including the outfitting of 300 applicants' homes with solar energy systems, to offset the extraordinarily high residential energy costs faced by Molokai's homeowners.
Later, a grass house was built and served as the home of Sheriff J. H. Coney until he built a new house across King (now Kalakaua) Street in 1858, a site presently occupied by the East Hawaii Cultural Center (EHCC, a building completed in 1932 and previously used as the old police station and county courthouse). [4]
Hoʻolulu Park (officially the Hoʻolulu Park Complex; sometimes shortened to Hoʻolulu Complex) is a 56-acre (23 ha) park and recreation center operated by the County of Hawaiʻi in Hilo, Hawaii, east of the Wailoa River State Recreation Area and downtown Hilo, and west of Hilo International Airport.
Keaʻau is on the east side of the island of Hawaiʻi at (19.621072, -155.041706 It is bordered to the southwest by Kurtistown. Hilo is 8 miles (13 km) to the north. The junction of Hawaii Route 11 (the Hawaii Belt Road) and Hawaii Route 130 (Keaau-Pahoa Road) is in the northern part of the community.
Kealakekua is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaiʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States.The population was 2,019 at the 2010 census, [2] up from 1,645 at the 2000 census.. It was the subject of the 1933 popular song "My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii" by Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison and Johnny Noble, which became a Hawaiian music standard.