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Afao
Village
Afao's location on Tutuila Island
Afao
Coordinates: 14°20′12″S 170°47′57″W / 14.33667°S 170.79917°W / -14.33667; -170.79917
Country	United States
Territory	American Samoa
County	Lealataua
Area
• Total	0.5 sq mi (1.4 km)
Population
• Total	96
• Density	335.5/sq mi (129.5/km)

Afao is a village in southwest Tutuila Island, American Samoa. It is located on the island's short southwestern coast, between 'Amanave and Leone, to the southwest of Pago Pago. It includes the settlement of Atauloma. Afao is home to two places listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places: Afao Beach Site and Atauloma Girls School.

In 1899, the London Missionary Society (LMS) started to raise funds to construct a girls’ school at Atauloma, and after $10,000 had been collected, Commandant Benjamin Franklin Tilley was invited to lay the cornerstone of its concrete structure. The girls' school was constructed in 1900 as the second secondary school on Tutuila Island, and the first school on the island to accept female students. It was established by the LMS and provided graduates to the nursing school at the naval station in Pago Pago. The school is located at the western edge of Afao, in Atauloma and was completed in 1900.

Geography

Afao is situated one kilometer northwest of Leone, positioned at the head of Afao Valley. The valley floor extends from sea level up to 300 meters at the surrounding ridge tops.

Demographics

References

1. "2020 Island Areas Censuses: American Samoa".
2. Gray, John Alexander Clinton (1980). Amerika Samoa. Arno Press. Page 173. ISBN 9780405130380.
3. "NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
4. United States National Park Service (1994). National register of historic places, 1966-1994: cumulative list through January 1, 1994. U.S. National Park Service. Page 22. ISBN 9780891332541.
5. Winterhoff, Ernest H. (2007). “The political economy of ancient Samoa: Basalt adze production and linkages to social status”. University of Oregon. Page 78. Retrieved on December 21, 2024, from https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/items/96233f10-12ad-4025-9f55-af2357b4103a
6. "American Samoa Statistical Yearbook 2016" (PDF). American Samoa Department of Commerce. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-14. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
7. "2020 Census Population of American Samoa: Village" (PDF). U.S. Census. 2020.

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