b'`Anaeho`omalugraduallybecameacomplexofT H E P A R K E R R A N C H E R Amulti-family sites and shared community spaces such asThe Great Mahele of 1848 granted rights of land ownership eating houses for men and women. Their traditional fish- for the first time in Hawai`i, dividing the lands into three ing practices were passed down through generations, andcategories: Crown Lands (for the occupant of the throne), change came very slowly over many hundreds of years.Government Lands, and Konohiki Lands (for those families Then, in the 17th century, the population began towho had traditionally worked the area).OPPOSITE PAGE: Remnants of an decline, according to anthropologist William Barrera,WaikoloaAhupua`awasawardedtoGeorgeDavisancient Hawaiian fishing village Jr. who conducted an exhaustive survey of the area. HeHu`eu, son of Isaac Davis, who had received the land fromare preserved in front of the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort speculates that as the ali`i began to notice more and moreKamehameha I. That grant did not include the coastal areas& Spa.economic potential of the fishponds, they wanted moreof `Anaeho`omalu and Kalahuipua`a; Kamehamehas advi-and more tribute. This pressure resulted in many of thesors had advised him to keep those areas so that he wouldTHIS PAGE: The land on which Waikoloa Beach Resort and residents moving to areas where the demand for tributealways have access to the fishing resources. Waikoloa Village are built was was less. It seems ironic that the very factor thatmade itIn 1903, Waikoloa Ahupua`a was purchased by Parkeronce part of Parker Ranch, possible for people to inhabit `Anaeho`omaluthe pres- Ranch Manager A.W. Carter. According to Dr. Billy Berginconnecting the ocean to the ence of fishponds and shallow inshore fishing groundsin his book, Loyal to the Land, Carter had arranged withuplands of Waimea.might also have been the cause of the abandonmentland owner Lucy Peabody, granddaughter of Isaac Davis, of the area.to buy the acreage, however the Ranchs half-owner Sam In short, it was too expensive to live at `Anaeho`omaluParker objected. Not long after, Peabody notified Carter that because of the taxes. she had another offer, this time from a group of partners 2 5'