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Attractions & Activities: Historic Lahaina
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Lahaina Whaling Museum
Yankee whalers came to Lahaina to reprovision ships' stores, get drunk, and raise hell with "the girls of old Mowee." Everything was fine and dandy until 1819, when Congregational missionaries arrived and declared the port town "one of the breathing holes of hell." They tried to curb drinking and prostitution, but failed; Lahaina grew ever more lawless until the whaling era came to an end with the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania and the birth of the petroleum industry. That rambunctious era is recalled in this small museum full of art and relics from Lahaina's glory days.
At Crazy Shirts, 865 Front St.
(near Papalaua St.).
Phone: 808/661-4775 .
Open: Daily 9:30am-9pm.
Free admission.
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