The wildfire that killed scores of people in Lahaina leveled historical landmarks that made the town a center of Hawaiian culture.
“It became a center of political power,” said Davianna McGregor, a retired professor of ethnic studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.
The most recent chapel, rebuilt after a fire in 1894 and renamed Waiola, burned to the ground this week. Its cemetery holds the remains of many of Hawaii’s kings, queens, high chiefs and princesses.Pioneer Mill Thousands of Chinese immigrants came to Maui during this time to work on the plantations, according to the, a nonprofit that maintains a number of historic structures in Lahaina, including the Old Lahaina Prison, the Plantation Museum and the Wo Hing Museum. In the early 1900s, they formed the Wo Hing Society and later built the historic two-story temple that served as a gathering place for the island’s expat community.the wooden Wing Ho temple is “completely gone.
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