The community was established by King Kamehameha
I to be his seat of government when he was chief of Kona before he consolidated
rule of the archipelago, and it later it became the capital of the newly
unified Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. The capital later moved
to Lāhainā, then, to Honolulu. Royal fishponds at Kaloko-Honokōhau National
Historical Park were the hub of unified Hawaiian culture. The town later
functioned as a retreat of the Hawaiian royal family. Up until the late 1900s, Kailua-Kona
was primarily a small fishing village. In the late 20th and early 21st
