Lahainaluna High School, Lahainaluna, Hawaii. County/parish: Maui.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 13, 1976. NRIS 76000662.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Lahainaluna High School is a public high school serving grades 9–12, located in Lahaina on the island of Maui. Operated by the Hawaii Department of Education, Lahainaluna High School is also a public boarding school. It was founded in 1831 as a Protestant missionary school, originally named Lahainaluna Seminary. The early missionaries who arrived in Lahaina in 1823 explained to the Hawaiian Royalty the importance of an educational institution in the American style.
A number of the pioneers, students and teachers are buried in a small graveyard behind several buildings on the campus. It was the first formal European-American style school founded in Hawaii and has continued to operate to this day.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63816020