A map of Maui ~
A map of Lahaina, Maui and surrounding areas ~
A Lahaina Historic Trail Map ~ A Walking Map
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The dotted line on the map is a quick 30 minute walk.
22. THE MASTERS’ READING ROOM stands at the corner of Front and Dickerson.
Originally a store room for missionaries, it was converted to a downtown
officers club by whaling ship captains in 1834. Its coral block and fieldstone
construction is preserved exactly as originally built. You just observe the second floor reading room of this building from the
outside - there is no inside area to tour. There is a local Hawaiian craftsmen
gift shop that occupies the first floor.
21. The two story BALDWIN HOME was the home of Dwight Baldwin a Protestant
medical missionary, and his family from the 1830s to 1868. The house served as
a medical office and general center for missionary activity. A seamen’s chapel
and Christian reading rooms for ships’ masters and men was nearby. The Baldwins
had a garden of native and introduced plants: Kukui, kou, banana, guava, figs,
and grape arbors. The Museum is open daily from 10AM to 4PM. You can go through the home in a few minutes, or spend a long time
looking at artifacts in each room. They have a small admission cost of a couple
dollars.
19. (site only) William Richards was the first
Protestant missionary to Lahaina. On the site of the present Campbell Park, the RICHARDS HOUSE was the first coral stone house in the islands.
Richards left the mission in the 1830s to work directly for the kingdom as
chaplain, teacher and translator to King Kamehameha III. He helped draw up the
constitution. Seeking recognition of the kingdom’s independence, he traveled to
the United States and Europe as the king’s envoy. He also served as the
Minister of Education.
25. (site
only) The remnants of a substantial TARO
PATCH, called Kapukaiao, were visible as late as the 1950s. Kamehameha III
is said to have worked here to show his subjects the dignity of labor. If this just looks like the front yard of the Lahaina library, you are
not mistaken, there is no taro here and the water has been drained long ago!
27. The HAUOLA STONE is believed to have been used by the Hawaiians as
a healing place. How well you can see this in the water is related to whether or not the
ocean is at high tide or low tide. There is a brass marker on the shore that
helps you locate the Hauloa Stone, which is close to the Brick Palace
excavation described next below.
26. (site only) The BRICK PALACE, built around the year 1800, is believed to be
the first western building in the islands. It was made of locally produced
brick. Constructed at the command of Kamehameha I, the brick palace was used
intermittently as a storehouse and a residence until the 1850s. The
cornerstones and foundation have been excavated. We walked by this many times, incorrectly assuming it was something like
an abandoned volleyball court, before we stopped and read the brass markers to
discover the historical significance of this excavation.
62. The OLD LAHAINA LIGHTHOUSE fronting the Pioneer Inn in Lahaina was
commissioned by Kamehameha III in 1840 as an aid to navigation for whaleboats
coming ashore for Rest and Relaxation. It began as a 9 foot wooden tower that
was increased to 26 feet in 1866. The whale oil lamp light was kept burning by
a Hawaiian caretaker. The Old Lahaina Lighthouse was rebuilt in 1905. The
present concrete structure was dedicated by the US Coast Guard in 1916. This
light was the first in the Hawaiian Islands and predates any lighthouse on the
US Pacific Coast. The Old Lahaina Lighthouse is easy to spot at the north end of Lahaina
Harbor.
16. The PIONEER INN’S original section fronting the harbor dates from
1901. Additional rooms and shops were added in 1965, but this extension was
carefully built to match the style of the original. It served as the only
visitor accommodation in West Maui until the late 1950s. The stern old
turn-of-the-century regulations for guests are still posted in the rooms. This is still a working hotel where you can stay, and also has a small
restaurant that handles overflow visitors waiting for their activities at
Lahaina Harbor.
15. The BANYAN TREE was planted in April 1873 to mark the fiftiesth
anniversary of the beginning of Protestant missionary work in Lahaina. This
banyan tree is now more than sixty feet high and casts shade over an acre. You can't miss Banyan Tree Park on the ocean side
of Front Street at the south end of Lahaina. The Old Lahaina Courthouse is
behind the huge banyan tree, and Lahaina Harbor is just across the street from
the back of the Courthouse.
14. The old Lahaina COURTHOUSE was built with stones from the demolished Hale
Piula. The courhouse also served as a custom house and the center of
anti-smuggling activity during the whaling era. In August, 1898, the Hawaiian
flag was lowered here and the American flag was raised. This marked the formal
annexation of the islands by the United States. In March 2008 during our visit the upstairs Lahaina Heritage Museum was
closed for renovation, but in the hallway you can view an eight-foot by
five-foot three-dimensional relief map of the island of Maui displayed in a koa
wood cabinet,as well as the last Hawaiian Flag to fly over the state. Find the
outside entrance to the basement, which includes some old jail cells that are
like the ones in Hale Pa'ahao (Stuck in Irons House) of the mid-1850s. Inside,
a sailor-prisoner talks about his escapades in Lahaina that led up to his
arrest while sea chantey tunes play in the background.
12. The reconstucted remains of part of the
waterfront FORT stands on the two corners of Banyan Tree Park
that face Lahaina Harbor. The fort was built in the early 1830s after some
sailors lobbed cannonballs at the town during an argument with Protestant
missionaries over the visits of native women to ships. Visitors thought the
fort looked as of it were built more for show than force. The fort was used
mostly as a prison. It was torn down in the 1850s to supply stones for the
construction of Hale Pa’ahao - the prison on Prison Street.
8. (site
only) Lahaina had no natural harbor like Honolulu Harbor. Lahaina only had an
open roadstead, so the whaler ships' small Chase Boats had to come in from the
deep-water offshore anchorage to trade. When the surf was up, they often had
trouble beaching. In the early 1840s, the United States consular representative
dug a CANAL to a basin near the market, and
charged a fee for its use. After a few years, the government took over the
canal and built a thatched market house with stalls, which almost immediately
burned down. The canal was filled in 1913. (site only) All trade between natives and ships was carried on at the GOVERNMENT MARKET. “These are
the things which I strictly forbid,” ran the edict of Princess Nahi’ena’ena in
1833, “overcharging, underselling…wrangling, breaking of bargains, enticing,
pursuing, chasing a boat, greediness... I hereby forbid women from going to the
market enclosure, for the purpose of sightseeing or to stand idly by...”
Despite this, the area around the market was noted for its gamy activities, and
was called Rotten Row.
**Continue to the rest of the Historic Trail, which covers an wider area and takes an additional hour.
61. The EPISCOPAL CHURCH in the islands was founded in 1862. The present
building dated from 1927, and is notable for an alter painting depicting a
Hawaiian Madonna and colorful endemic plants and birds. Walk to the side of the church - there are no walls, just open air with
beams to hold up the roof. The front door is almost always open. If you enter
and go to the front alter you can view the Hawaiian Madonna at the back wall.
60. (site only) HALE PIULA, “iron-roof house,” a large two-story stone
building with a surrounding piazza, was built in the late 1830s as a palace for
Kamehameha III. It was not a success. In fact, it was never finished. The king
preferred to sleep in a small thatch hut nearby. By the mid-1840s, the king and
his advisors were spending more time at Honolulu than Lahaina, and Hale Piula
fell into disrepair. It was used as a courthouse for some time, and after a
gale damaged it badly in 1858, its stones were used to build the present
courthouse.
58. 59. (site only) MALUULUOLELE PARK hides one of the most interesting parts of old
Lahaina. Once there was a pond here, called Mokuhinia, home of a powerful water
spirit in the form of a lizard or dragon. A tiny island in the pond, MOKUULA,
was for decades a home of Maui chiefs, and then a residence of three Kamehameha
kings. Several important chiefs of the early
1800s were buried there. Kamehameha III used to receive visitors at the royal
tomb in the late 1830s and early 1840s, showing them the large burial chamber,
with its mirrors, velvet draperies, chairs and kahili (feathered staffs), and
ornate coffins. Long after the chiefs’ remains were removed, the
pond was filled, the island leveled, and a ball park was created in 1918. There is not much to see here right now. When you see the tennis and
basketball courts at the south end of Front Street, you have found this site.
There are long term plans to develop this into an area that matches the
graphic.
56. WAIOLA CHURCH was the first stone church in the islands, built
between 1828 and 1832 by natives under the direction of their chiefs for the
Protestant mission. It could seat 3000 Hawaiians packed together on the floor
and had calabash spittoons for tobacco-chewing chiefs and ships’ masters. A
whirlwind unroofed the church and blew down the belfry in 1858; the bell, once
described as “non too sonorous,” fell a hundred feet undamaged. In 1894, native
royalists protesting the annexation of Hawaii by the U.S. burned the church.
Rebuilt, it burned down again in 1947, was rebuilt, and was demolished by
another whirlwind in 1951. The new church, dedicated in 1953, was renamed
Waiola, 'Water of Life'. The sign at both Waiola locations are
confusing because they still use the old name 'Waine'e' (the street you are on)
rather then the current name 'Waiola'.
57. WAIOLA CHURCHYARD – here lies history. Here are buried the great
and obscure of early Lahaina – Hawaiian chiefs and commoners, seamen,
missionaries. Here and there is a reminder of the old custom of marking the
tomb with a glass-framed picture. Among the stones are those of Governor
Hoapili and his wife Kalakua; Ke’opuolani, (first of the chiefs to be converted
to Christianity, wife of Kamehameha I and mother of Kamehameha II, Kemehameha
III, and Princess Nahi’ena’ena); and pioneer missionary, William Richards.
55. Members of the Buddhist HONGWANJI MISSION have been meeting here since 1910, when they put
up a small temple and a language school. The present building dates from 1927.
54. (site
only) DAVID MALO’S HOUSE was near the junction of Prison Road and Waine’e
Street. Malo, educated at Lahainaluna Seminary as an adult, was the first
renowned Hawaiian scholar and philosopher. He developed a keen sense of
judgement and was a prime mover in framing the bill of rights and the
constitution. His account of the ancient culture, Hawaiian Antiquities, has
become a classic. Bitter about growing white control of Hawaii, he asked to be
buried “above the tide of the foreign invasion” and his grave site is on the
top of Mt. Ball, above the school. David Malo Day is celebrated annually at the
high school in late spring.
53. HALE PA’AHAO, “stuck-in-irons-house,” was Lahaina’s prison
from the 1850s. Built at a leisurely pace by convict laborers, out of coral
stone from the demolished waterfront Fort, it had the standard wall shackles
and ball and chain restraints for difficult prisoners. Most of the inmates were
there for desertion from ships, drunkenness, working on the Sabbath, or
dangerous horse-riding.
49.The EPISCOPAL CEMETERY on Waine’e Street contains burial sites of many
early families on Maui who joined the Anglican Church after the Archbishop of
Canterbury in England was specifically requested to form a church in Hawaii by
Queen Emma.
50. HALE ALOHA can be seen from the cemetary. The “House of
Love” was built by native Protestants in “commemoration of God’s causing
Lahaina to escape the smallpox, while it desolated Oahu in 1853, carrying off
5000-6000 of its population. Completed in 1858, it was used as a church and
school for many years, but by the early 1900s it fell into ruins. The County of
Maui restored the structure in 1974.
51.
The BUDDHIST CHURCH OF THE SHINGON SECT, with its green paint and simple wooden architectural
style, is typical of church buildings put up all over Maui in the plantation
era, when Japanese laborers were imported to work in the sugar fields.
52.(site only) Along LUAKINI
STREET in 1837 passed the
funeral procession of the tragic Princess Nahi’ena’ena. Caught between the
ancient and the modern world, she alternatively worshipped the Protestant God,
and yearned after the old traditions, in which a union with her brother
Kamehameha III would have preserved the purity of the royal family. She had a
son by the king in August, 1836. The boy lived only a few hours, and
Nahi’ena’ena herself died in December. She was 21. Along the way to her burial
place, a path was made through stands of breadfruit and koa trees. It became
known as Luakani Street, after the Hawaiian word for the sacrificial heiau, the
state temples of the old religion.
48. MARIA LANAKILA CHURCH. The first Roman Catholic mass was celebrated on
Maui in 1841, and there has been a Catholic church on this site since 1846. The
present church, a concrete replica of an earlier wooden structure, dates from
1928. We attend Easter ceremonies here each year
during our Maui Spring Break vacation.
47. The SEAMEN’S CEMETERY. Herman Melville’s cousin was buried here, and
one of Melville’s shipmates as well, who died in the Seaman’s Hospital of a
“disreputable disease.” Over the years, the marked graves of sailors gradually
disappeared, until now only one or two are identifiable.
46. HALE PA’I, the
printing house of Lahainaluna Seminary, founded by Protestant missionaries in
1831, turned out hundreds of thousands of pages of material in the Hawaiian
language. The school is the oldest educational institution west of the Rockies
and now serves as the public high school for the Lahaina area. The printing
shop was restored in 1980-82 by the Lahaina Restoration Foundation under a
grant from the State of Hawaii. An exhibit features a replica of the original
Ramage press and facsimiles of early printing. Museum open Monday-Friday,
10am-3pm.
41. The WO HING MUSEUM on Front Street is affiliated with the Chee Kung
Tong, a Chinese fraternal society with branches all over the world. This one
dates from early in this century, when the local society had over a hundred
members. The Chinese were amond the earliest immigrants to Hawaii and became a
powerful force in the commerce of Lahaina. Museum open daily.
44.
The U.S. SEAMEN’S HOSPITAL on Front Street (1833) was once the hideaway of
Kamehameha III. The building was leased to the U.S. State Department in 1844 to
serve as a center for the treatment of sick and injured seamen, particularily
whalers who flocked to these shores between 1820 to 1860. There was scandalous
talk in those days that the doctors at the hospital collected per diem fees
from the government for patients long since buried in the Seamen’s Cemetery. An
investigation of these charges was made in 1859, but no official action was
ever taken. Next door is an early residence, typical of the homes of the sugar
plantation camps.
45.
The statue of BUDDHA
at the JODO MISSION near Mala wharf was erected to mark the hundredth
anniversary of the arrival of the first Japanese plantation laborers in 1868.
The grounds and building of the mission are open to the public. This is in north Lahaina, and more of a drive
than a casual walk from downtown Front Street.
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