Lahaina

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Keywords

Lahaina, Hawaii, missionaries

Abstract

Lahaina was the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaíi from 1820-1845. Government functions and the royal palace was at Mokuula, an island in a fish pond, now a park at the corner of Front Street and Shaw Street. From 1819 to after the U.S. Civil War Lahaina’s economy centered around the whaling industry. Whale ships would winter here and resupply and recuperate from whaling in the North Pacific. As whaling declined the Pioneer Sugar Mill was Lahaina’s economic engine from 1860 to 1999 along with a pineapple packing plant. Protestant missionaries from the ABCFM were invited to establish a mission station here in 1823 and in 1831 the Lahainaluna Seminary, the oldest secondary school west of the Mississippi.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

(2012) "Lahaina," Mormon Pacific Historical Society: Vol. 33, Article 6.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mphs/vol33/iss1/6