Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
Started: 1935
Completed: 1936
Quality of Information: Very Good
Site Survival: Extant
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Description
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration funded the construction and improvement of Mokapu Road, providing “another scenic, military and commercial highway that borders the Pacific Ocean for much of its extensive stretch, winding away from the main around the island highway, around one of Oahu’s picturesque points and then back to the main belt road.”
Source notes
U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual Report of the Governor of Hawaii to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1936, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936, p. 4.
Project originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 26, 2017.
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