“Sogelau” monument
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The “Sogelau” complex, which was officially dedicated last Friday morning in a two-hour ceremony, is a remembrance of the “Sogelau Hill” in Fagatogo, the site of the first United States flag raised on Tutuila on Apr. 17, 1900, ceding the islands of Tutuila and Aunu’u to...

![The nearly $300,000 new “Sogelau” monument in Fagatogo with the Archway and one of the two monuments — this one dedicated to Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga, the current governor, who has been at the helm of government since 2013. [photo Leua Aiono Frost] The Archway and one of the two monuments — this one dedicated to Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/sogelau_complex_leua.jpg?itok=46HbSNIs)