- City:
- Ho'olehua, HI
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1942
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Between 1935 and 1942, “the WPA aided the Territory with funds to gradually enlarge and improve the field which was originally a dirt strip (source note 1).
Source notes
(1) “Molokai Airport (Hoolehua Airport),” Hawaii Aviation: An Archive of Historic Photos and Facts,” https://hawaii.gov/hawaiiaviation/hawaii-airfields-airports/molokai/molokai-airport, accessed March 21, 2015. (2) “Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF): Cultural Landscape Report, Final, August 2011, Chapter 3 – Historic Context,” at Commander Naval Installations Command, “Barking Sands to PMRF – Prehistory Through the Cold War,” https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrh/installations/pacific_missile_range_facility_barking_sands/about/history/barking-sands-to-pmrf----prehistory-through-the-cold-war/early-20th-century-prior-to-wwii/hawaii-airfields-and-barking-sands-landing-field-1914-1939.html, accessed March 21, 2015.Contribute to this Site
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