A former police garrison on a saddle of the west ridge of Yanglaoshan (養老山) in Jianshi, established along what is now the Syakaro Historic Trail (霞喀羅古道) in 1922 under Japanese colonial rule. It is named after Mawan, by tradition the first Tayal settler to clear land here. It became Ma’an Police Substation (馬鞍派出所) in the post-war era and was abandoned in 1959; only the foundation platform and fragments of rammed earth walls remain.
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Links
- Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development Center in Chinese (原住民族委員會原住民族文化發展中心)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Police History in Taiwan (台灣警察歷史)
- Indigenous People of Taiwan (台灣原住民)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.