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Piilani

Hawaiian chief

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history of Maui

In Maui
A 14th-century Hawaiian chief, Piilani, built the island’s largest stone temple, Piilanihale Heiau (still extant), and an extensive road system. In 1795 the island fell to Kamehameha I. In the early 1820s both whalers and missionaries began to arrive. Whaling began to decline in the 1860s as the sugar…
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