IDENTIFICATION OF WOOD FROM THE JOHN YOUNG HOMESTEAD SITE, HAWAII

Summary

Pieces of wood from an in situ threshold at the John Young Homestead Site, Hawaii, were

submitted for identification. John Young was a British sailor who was stranded in Hawaii in 1790.

Young became King Kamehameha's military advisor and trading agent, and was made governor

of the island from 1802 to 1812. The threshold is within the entrance located in the western wall

of the main residence. The John Young residence and several features on the site were

constructed in 1798, and might have been the first in Hawaii to have been coated with a limestone

plaster.

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• PaleoResearch Institute

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