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Attractions & Activities: Historic Lahaina
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Baldwin Home Museum
The oldest house in Lahaina, this coral-and-rock structure was built in 1834 by Rev. Dwight Baldwin, a doctor with the fourth company of American missionaries to sail around the Horn to Hawaii. Like many missionaries, he came to Hawaii to do good--and did very well for himself. After 17 years of service, Baldwin was granted 2,600 acres for farming and grazing in Kapalua. His ranch manager experimented with what Hawaiians called hala-kahiki, or pineapple, on a 4-acre plot; the rest is history. Open for guided tours, the house looks as though Baldwin had just stepped out for a minute to tend a sick neighbor down the street. Next door is the Masters' Reading Room, Maui's oldest building. This became visiting sea captains' favorite hangout once the missionaries closed down all of Lahaina's grog shops and banned prostitution; but by 1844, once hotels and bars started reopening, it lost its appeal. It's now the headquarters of the Lahaina Restoration Foundation, a plucky band of historians who try to keep this town alive and antique at the same time. Stop in and pick up a self-guided walking-tour map. You'll learn the stories of those who lived Lahaina's colorful past, from the missionary doctor who single-handedly kept a cholera epidemic from wiping out Maui's people to the boy king who lived on his very own island.
696 Front St.
(at Dickenson St.).
Phone: 808/661-3262 .
Open: Daily 10am-4:30pm.
Admission $3 adults, $2 seniors, $1 children, $5 family..
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