Lahainaluna Seminary (now Lahainaluna High School) was founded on
September 5th 1831 by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions
“to instruct young men of piety and promising talents”.
Out of this training came many of Hawaii's future leaders and scholars
including David Malo (1835,) Samuel Kamakau (1837) and others (Keali‘i Reichel
graduated in 1980.)
In December, 1833,
a printing press
was delivered to
Lahainaluna from Honolulu.
It was housed in a temporary office building and in
January, 1834, the
first book printed off
the press was
Worcester's Scripture Geography.
On February 14, 1834 came
the first newspaper, ‘Ka Lama
Hawaii,’ ever printed in
the Islands in
any language, also the
first newspaper published west of the Rocky Mountains.
Besides the publication of the newspapers, pamphlets and books, another
important facet of activity off the press was engraving.
A checklist made in 1927 records thirty-three maps and fifty-seven
sketches of houses and landscapes, only one of which is of a non-Hawaiian
subject.
That brings us to a newly printed book "Engraved at
Lahainaluna," offered through the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site
and Archives.
It’s here and being processed for sales, soon … and if you like things
of Hawai‘i, this is something you will want to add to your collection.
The Mission Houses store is open Tuesday through Sunday 10 am through 4
pm – it’s located at the Historic site at 553 South King Street (Diamond Head
side of Kawaiahaʻo Church.
Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives invites the public
to celebrate the launching of Engraved at Lahainaluna, on Wednesday, May 30, at
5:30 p.m. at Hawaiian Mission Houses.
For more information on the book launch, or to purchase Engraved at
Lahainaluna, please call 447-3923 or visit www.missionhouses.org.
The image shows a drawing of Lahainaluna (ca. 1838, drawn by Bailey and
engraved by Kepohoni;) in addition, Missions Houses has given me permission to
post some of the engravings and I added a few other Lahainaluna engravings in a
folder of like name in the Photos section.
(I’ll add some more later.)
But don’t rely on these, get you own copy of the “Engraved at Lahainaluna”
(I’ve already ordered mine.)
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