Kau High and Pahala Elementary School – Pahala HI

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Description

The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for the school in Pahala, on the Big Island. The PWA grant amounted to $15,930, and the work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No. TH-1070-F, was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditure for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939. Located in a rural plantation town, the Kau High and Pahala Elementary School consists of several classroom buildings with large lanai and corrugated metal roofs.

Source notes

Hawaii State Archives, GOV8-18, U.S. Departments, Emergency Relief – Works Progress Administration.

Kau High and Pahala Elementary School, Historic Hawaii Foundation, accessed June 25, 2017.

Project originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 30, 2017.

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Location Info


Kau High and Pahala Elementary School
Pahala, HI 96777

Coordinates: 19.2027071, -155.47873549999997

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