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Maui History & Cultural Activities
Museums & Historical Landmarks
West Maui
Hale Paahao - Prison |
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History &
Information
On July 11, 1851, “an Act relating to prisons, their
government, and discipline” was passed by the Hawaii
Legislature and approved by the King. It authorized a new
jail for Lahaina which was to be constructed to “keep
entirely separate from each other the male and female
prisoners, and to have a yard enclosed by fences of
sufficient height and strength to prevent escapes and also
to prevent all access to, or communication by persons
outside with any persons confined therein.
” This new prison was to replace the one inside the
coral-block fort on Lahaina’s waterfront. The Fort had been
built in the early 1830’s. It was used mostly as a prison
until the 1850’s when it was torn down to supply stones for
the new prison.
 During the 1930’s the County of Maui sponsored
reconstruction of the cell buildings and stockade by the
Works Progress Administration. In 1957 the cell buildings
burned down, where upon the Hawaii Legislature appropriated
funds to reconstruct the wooden prison buildings. The prison
was reopened to the public in 1959 with no supervision other
than a part-time yardman.
This situation remained until 1967 when the Lahaina
Restoration Foundation presented to the Maui Historical
Commission a plan for restoring the Hale Pa ahao Prison. The
plan was all encompassing and detailed how to preserve the
prison yard wall and the wooden buildings and how to
accomplish historical and archaeological research in order
to restore a collapsing ruin into an outdoor museum
representative of Lahaina in the 1850’s.
 The plan was accepted; the County provided the funds, and
the Lahaina Restoration Foundation did the work, which
resulted in a rare example of proper historical restoration.
In 1985, a 20 year agreement was signed between the LRF and
the County of Maui wherein LRF would continue, at its own
expense, to maintain the prison free of all deterioration
and all rents or fees would be held in trust restricted to
the support of the site as a museum.
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