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Photographer: Dawn Bowen
Taken: June 17, 2007
Caption: Iosepa Settlement Cememtery Marker
Additional Description: The Iosepa Community developed after Polynesian converts to the Mormon faith were employed as laborers by the Iosepa Agricultural and Stock Company in 1989. After numerous hardships, including bouts with leprosy, the colony attained a degree of financial independence and its population reached 228. In 1915 when the L.D.S. Church began to build the Hawaiian Temple, the need for "gathering" subsided. The Iosepa project was allowed to end and most of the settlers and their children returned to the Islands by 1917.
Submitted: June 24, 2007, by Dawn Bowen of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p3522
File Size: 3.309 Megabytes

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