Showing posts with label Lahaina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lahaina. Show all posts
Friday, January 30, 2015

Lāhainā Banyan Tree

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Over the course of a little over 40-years (1820-1863 - the “Missionary Period,”) the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission ...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

House of Nobles

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The first Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi adopted in 1840 replaced the informal council of chiefs with a formal legislature of the...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Dwight Baldwin

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Dwight Baldwin was born on September 29, 1798 to Seth Baldwin (1775 –1832,) (a framer) and Rhoda Hull Baldwin in Durham, Connecticut, and...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Tauʻā

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William Ellis (August 24, 1794 – 1872) applied to train as a Christian missionary for the London Missionary Society and was accepted to t...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

US Marine Hospital

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“Lāhainā (anciently called Lele, from the short stay of Chiefs there) is pleasantly located on the western shore of West Maui … It may be...
Friday, September 5, 2014

Lānaʻi - Lāhainā Ferry

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In ancient times, the windward coast of the island of Lānaʻi was home to many native residents.  Maunalei Valley had the only perennial s...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819.  The family name was Melvill, and he added the "e" to the name.  H...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Kimo Ona-Milliona

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James was son of William and Martha (Adams) Campbell, descended from the Scottish Campbell clan, the eighth child in the family of eight ...
Sunday, December 1, 2013

A Haven for Whalers and World Travelers

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In the Lāhainā region, the kula kahakai (near-shore lands) were thickly populated, chiefly residences and places of worship dominated t...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Buckle, Wahinepio and Leoiki

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At the end of May in 1823, Keōpūolani, Nāhiʻenaʻena and Hoapili (Keōpūolani’s husband) moved to Maui and took up residence in Lāhainā....
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Māla Wharf

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"(T)he citizens of Maui in particular, and of the Territory or Hawaiʻi in general, as well as many strangers who, in the past, have ...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Ala Hele Moʻolelo O Lāhainā

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Maui captured “Best Island in the World” honors in the annual Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards Poll for nearly twenty-years in ...
Friday, August 2, 2013

Pioneer Mill

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The early Polynesians brought sugarcane with them to the Islands.  Kō (sugarcane) was planted as a subsistence crop - with domestic, medi...