The Lai’e Pier is a little-known maritime structure that lies near the village of Lai’e, on the Hawai’ian island of Oahu. Lai’e lies along the northeast coast of the island. The pier was a wharf that was built to ease the process of loading sugar that was produced at the Lai’e Plantation’s sugar mill. While there was some debate of when the structure was actually built, historical records indicate it was built in 1887. It was used extensively by small, inter-island, steam ships that carried mail, sugar, molasses, and other supplies between coastal villages and Honolulu, Hawai’i. Records indicate it was used from 1887 until 1898, but with the advent of rail lines linking the various sugar plantations, the pier was abandoned. All that remains of the pier is an array of large iron posts that served as the support structure for the loading crane and platform. It is, however, one of the few remaining examples of such structures that were used during the unique historical period of Hawai’ian inter-island steamboat shipping, especially on the Island of Oahu. This paper describes all that is known about the pier, its use, and its present state.

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海中的糖：美国夏威夷莱鄂庞德斯海滩莱鄂码头的历史作为支持 19 世纪晚期夏威夷岛间汽船运输的独特结构范例

莱娥码头是一个鲜为人知的海上建筑，位于夏威夷瓦胡岛莱娥村附近。莱厄位于岛的东北海岸。码头是一个码头，旨在简化莱娥种植园糖厂生产的糖的装载过程。虽然对该建筑的实际建造时间存在一些争论，但历史记录表明它建于 1887 年。它被小型、岛际蒸汽船广泛使用，在沿海村庄和沿海村庄之间运送邮件、糖、糖蜜和其他供应品。夏威夷火奴鲁鲁。记录表明它从 1887 年到 1898 年一直被使用，但随着连接各个甘蔗种植园的铁路线的出现，码头被废弃了。码头剩下的只是一系列大型铁柱，用作装载起重机和平台的支撑结构。然而，它是在夏威夷岛间汽船运输的独特历史时期，特别是在瓦胡岛使用的为数不多的这种结构的例子之一。本文描述了关于码头、它的用途和它的现状的所有已知信息。