![]() Outside of fishermen, this was not a heavily populated area for hundreds of years. ![]() Another story says the name was given because the fresh and salt water met, or united, here. Some believe the name arises from the fact that so many came, both locals and passers-by, to get fresh water from the springs here. Kawaiku’i, translated, means ‘the united water’. It was also the name used by the ancient Hawaiians for an area that included both. Kawaiku’i isn’t just the name of the park on the eastern side of Aina Haina Beach. The contents of the ships was changing, but the effects were the same. Though the plantations would become almost extinct before the end of the 20th Century, Honolulu was set in place. The plantation economy was joined in the early 1920’s by the tourism industry, the cruise ships finding their berths in the piers near where ships loaded with goods were going in and out of Hawaii. Many of them would fulfill their obligations on the farms, then move to urban Honolulu to take advantage of the job opportunities there or start their own businesses. The need for plantation workers brought men, and later women, from Asia and Europe, arriving through this same waterfront. Honolulu’s harbor’s focus would change from whaling to the local sugar and pineapple products in the late 1800’s. Neighborhoods sprang up quickly as well to house those attracted by the booming industry. Soon the land nearby was filled with shops and businesses catering to the whaling ships and trading vessels who increasingly stopped here. That would change forever in 1793 when sea captain William Brown, a fur and gun trader, realized the harbor was deep enough for large ships to dock. ![]() However, they lived in widespread communities whose centers changed according to where the Alii were at any one time. It’s true that Native Hawaiians lived across Oahu for as much as a thousand years before the town began to take its shape. Honolulu owes its existence to one crucial piece of geography – its harbor.
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