The Menehune Ditch - Hawaii

Address:5185 Menehune Road
Waimea, Hawaii

Archeologists think this unique marvel of engineering may have been built in one night, a feat that Hawaiian mythology credits the Menehune for. The Menehune were a mythical spread out people, living all over the mountainous areas of Kauai, as opposed to in a communal settlement. Legend has it that they were elf-life stone workers. According to the legend, once the Polynesians arrived, they subjugated the Menehune people and the Polynesian High Chief, Waimea, supposedly drafted them to build an aqueduct. The finished project was a large irrigation system made from smooth lava stone. The ditch carried water from the Waimea River to the taro fields found nearby. Amazingly, the heavy rocks used to build the ditch came from over six miles away in Mokihana.