Best Place To See Maui's Internment Camp Past, Winner Horizons Academy
There are no signs, markers or plaques identifying or memorializing the location of the World War II Japanese American internment camp that once sat near today's Pauwela Cannery in Haiku, but the building that houses the Horizons Academy seems to be the last surviving camp structure. "Reportedly built as bachelors' quarters for the plantation and used by the military for an officers' club, it would have been present when the internment camp was in operation," states the December 2007 Trans-Sierran Archaeological Research report on World War II Japanese American Internment Sties in Hawai'i. "The building has been extensively remodeled, with new siding and windows, but the general structure, including the post and pier foundation, appears to be original." 740 Haiku Rd.
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