Maui Research Paper

Your Maui vacation can be even more fun if you know a little bit about the history of Hawaii, and here are five history-related places to visit on the island. Build your vacation plans around them or just check in when you're in a particular area. You'll find them all in tourist publications, or you can locate them through an Internet map search. Gift shops at Bailey House and the A&B Museum are a good place to buy souvenirs.

--Baldwin Home Museum, on Front Street in Lahaina, was home to some of the earliest and most important missionaries to Maui. Built in 1834, the Baldwin home is the oldest standing building in Lahaina. It was the home of the Reverend Dwight Baldwin, a medical missionary who lived there from 1838 to 1871. Dr. Baldwin was

Though Lahaina was not a tourist destination in those days, the town did need a hotel--visitors had to stay in private homes--and Freeland also built a service station and a movie theater. Only the hotel remains, a colorful spot with reasonable rates and an open-air bar downstairs. Be sure to read the rules mounted on the wall for hotel guests in the early days--they are a

Kamehameha had the advantage, because he had Western armaments and sailors who knew how to use them, and he slaughtered so many of the Maui warriors that the Iao stream was clogged with their bodies. Hence the name "Kepaniwai," which means the "damming of the waters." Kamehameha went on to conquer all the Islands and unite them into one kingdom. Buildings scattered around the park are designed in the styles of various ethnic groups that have immigrated to Hawaii since Kamehameha's