HONOLULU (KHON2) — In the ahupuaʻa of Waikīkī, which lies in the moku of Kona here on Oʻahu, stands a roadway named after a haole merchant.
We’re speaking of Lewers Street.
Hawaiian language was nearly silenced
By the middle of the 1800s, Ireland native Christopher Lewers arrived in Honolulu and started a lumber business.
In partnership with a man named Joshua Gill Dickson, the lumber business evolved and was named Lewers & Dickson.
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Robert Lewers, who was a cousin to Christopher, arrived from New York and became a carpenter…