Travel Reference
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period photos, ceremonial instruments, a teak medicine cabinet circa 1900 and a Taoist
shrine.
Be sure to step inside the tin-roof cookhouse out back. It holds a tiny theater showing
films of Hawaii shot by Thomas Edison in 1898 and 1906, soon after he invented the
motion-picture camera. These grainy black-and-white shots capture poignant images of
old Hawaii, with
paniolo
(cowboys) herding cattle, cane workers in the fields and every-
day street scenes.
Hale Paʻahao
MUSEUM
(
www.lahainarestoration.org/paahao.html
;
187 Prison St; 8am-3pm Mon-Fri)
As far as
prisons go, this stone-walled calaboose doesn't look too intimidating. A remnant of the
whaling era, Hale Paʻahao (Stuck-in-Irons House) was built in 1852 by convicts who dis-
mantled an old fort beside the harbor. The prison looks much as it did 150 years ago.
One of the tiny cells displays a list of arrests in 1855. The top three offenses were
drunkenness (330 arrests), ʻfurious riding' (89) and lascivious conduct (20).
Waineʻe (Waiola) Church
CHURCH
(535 Waineʻe St)
The first stone church in Hawaii, Waineʻe Church was built in 1832. It
has been rebuilt three times over the centuries. The fourth version, renamed Waiola
Church, has stood its ground since 1953 and still holds Sunday services. The adjacent
cemetery
is the resting place for Governor Hoapili, who ordered the original church
built; Reverend William Richards, Lahaina's first missionary; and Queen Keʻopuolani,
wife of Kamehameha the Great and mother of kings Kamehameha II and III.
What calamities did the church face over the years? In 1858 the belfry collapsed. In
1894 royalists, enraged that the minister supported Hawaii's annexation, torched the
church to the ground. A second church, built to replace the original, burned in 1947, and
the third blew away in a storm a few years later.
Library Grounds
HISTORICAL SITE
(680 Wharf St)
A cluster of historical sites - the foundations of Kamehameha I's 'palace,'
a birthing stone, and a historic lighthouse - surround the Lahaina library. The yard itself
was once a royal taro field where Kamehameha III toiled in the mud to instill in his sub-
jects the dignity of labor.
