He Huliau ma Kipahulu or Change in Kipahulu

He Huliau ma Kipahulu or Change in Kipahulu. . , "Kipahulu was an 'okana (district) with rich and diverse but scattered agricultural resources. Its great valley and lower fringing forests nourished forest taro and other native food plants, as did the lower kula (open country) lands above the sea. Transformed under foreign enterprise into a sugar plantation, this land became a cattle ranch, but there were still some pockets of taro culture as late as 1934." -Handy, Handy, and Pukui, 1972 Native Planters in Old Hawaii, Their Life, Lore, and Environment , As you walk the Kuloa Point Trail loop you will see physical evidence of past human use of this land. , The history of the Kipahulu District includes five phases of land use. Several hundred years ago, Hawaiians settled in Kipahulu. In 1848, 70 years after Western Contact, major changes occurred when the Mahele (division) privatized land ownership in Hawai'i for the first time. 100 years after Western Contact, the Kipahulu Sugar Mill was in operation and a primary driver of the local economy. By 1930, sugar had declined, a brief pineapple venture had failed, and the Kipahulu Cattle Company was thriving. In 1969, the Kipahulu District was added to Haleakala National Park. , Timeline:

1100-1778 Hawaiian settlement in Kipahulu to Western Contact. , 1778-1880 Post-Cntact through the Mahele. , 1880-1920 Kipahulu Sugar mill in operation. , 1920-1960 Kipahulu Cattle Company thrives. , 1969-Present Kipahulu managed by the National Park Service.