Canal Street
Downtown Lahaina

These ruins are all that remain of a fort that stood just south of the courthouse. This fort overlooked one of the canals of Lahaina, now a paved street, and was built to protect the town after unruly sailors fired a canon at the Richard's house.

The missionaries saw the womanizing and drinking of the whaling sailors as a danger to Lahaina. Rev. Richard convinced the king to ban women from the ships and this sparked the incident. Later visitors to the island thought the fort looked more for show than force. It was finally torn down in 1850 and supplied the stone for the Hale Pa'ahao Prison.

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