Exploring Historic Lahaina

The old seaport of Lahaina has always been a town in transition — from royal retreat to rough-and-tumble whaling port, from plantation village to American small town. Now, relive Lahaina's rich history with this site-by-site guide, another volume in Watermark's unique Small Town Series. Here are fascinating photos of grog shops, churches, mom-and-pop stores and missionary homes, many of them from private collections and each one keyed to a handy foldout walking map. It's a tour of Lahaina's past through rare archival photographs — many of them never before published — and evocative first-person anecdotes.