page_title: Holualoa Bay
section_title: Decline
hierarchical_section_title: Holualoa Bay / Decline
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a picture from about 1890 of Kamoa Point, location of a large royal complex dating from about 1300 through the time of King Kamehameha I. It is still a popular surfing site, and is in the Holualoa 4 National Historic District and on the National Register of Historic Places.
context_page_description: Hōlualoa Bay is a historic area between Kailua-Kona and Keauhou Bay in the Kona District of the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. The community now called Hōlualoa is uphill from this bay.
  The name means "long slide" in the Hawaiian Language, from the long trail that went from a forest on the slopes of Hualālai, to a site where the logs were made into canoes into this bay where a large royal building complex was built over several centuries.
context_section_description: After the death of Kamehameha I in 1819, the royalty converted to Christianity and deconstructed many of the old temples.
  William Ellis toured the area in 1823, and recorded ruins with holes that had "idols removed" but were otherwise well preserved.
  He described one enclosure as two hundred seventy feet by two hundred ten feet.
  The place at the time was called Kaluaokalani but this name was unknown on later visits.
  The number of different names used through the years has added to confusion about the site.
  In the Great Mahele of 1848, the area became privately owned.
  The small beach trail was widened into a larger highway later in the 19th century, bisecting the complex.
  Some farming and cattle grazing in the early 20th century damaged some features, and a few private homes were built.
  A developer bought some of the land in 1956 with plans to build a hotel, but only a few small vacation homes were built due to local opposition.
  In 1973, a survey was done for a project variously known as "Aliʻi Drive realignment", "Kahului-Keauhou Parkway", or "Aliʻi Parkway", which has been on hold for decades.
  Another proposed road project through the area, Lako Street has been re-routed slightly to avoid some major sites (also on hold as of 2009).
  In 2010, a four-story condominium complex was proposed, greeted with local opposition.
  On the north side of the bay in the 19th century, a small Christian church was built called Hale Halawai O Holualoa.
  It was restored in the 1990s and now known as the "Living Stones Church".
caption: The area in about 1890 was less overgrown, but already had one modern house
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