{"id":1332,"date":"2016-07-30T19:08:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T05:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hilovacationhomes.com\/?post_type=flawles_activity&p=1332"},"modified":"2022-05-16T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T03:30:09","slug":"downtown-hilo-walking-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hilovacationhomes.com\/downtown-hilo-walking-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Hilo Walking Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MAP OF DOWNTOWN HILO HISTORIC SECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n Start Downtown Hilo\u00a0 Walking Tour:\u00a0 Park your car anywhere you can find parking.\u00a0 Since this is a loop it doesn’t matter where you start.\u00a0 If you want to start at the statue of Kamehameha, turn on Pauahi Steet, toward statue, at the Chevron station.\u00a0 Parking is down the road a bit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n KING KEMEHAMEHA STATUE AT WAILOA RIVER STATE PARK<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Front sign of Hilo Farmer’s Market on King Kamehameha Street.<\/p>\n King Kamehameha was born about 1736 (estimated as Hawaiians had no written language) and took over the Island of Hawaii in 1790.\u00a0 In 1795 he ventured north with 900 boats and took over the lightly defended island of Maui and Molokai.\u00a0 The battles for Oahu were more difficult and but now entertaining to read.\u00a0 The final and most northern island of Kaua\u2019I was always friendly to Kamehameha and voluntarily agreed to his kingship.\u00a0 The King\u2019s prominence is due to his leadership ability in establishing governments, trade, fair laws and unifying Hawaii for the benefit of Hawaiians.<\/p>\n The statue was built in 1963 in Italy and was paid for and intended for a resort in Kaua\u2019i.\u00a0 The locals protested and it stayed in storage until 1997 when it was donated to the Island of Hawaii.\u00a0 It is considered a poor representation of what he probably looked like.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n