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Public help sought in prison accident

The Lahaina Restoration Foundation is seeking the public’s help in finding out more information about an incident in which a vehicle slammed into a wall of the Old Lahaina Prison sometime Friday night.

The Lahaina Restoration Foundation is seeking the public’s help in finding out more information about an incident in which a vehicle slammed into a wall of the Old Lahaina Prison sometime Friday night.

The vehicle hit the wall on the Wainee Street side of the prison, which is located at the intersection of Wainee and Prison streets in Lahaina. The driver left the scene of the accident, according to a news release from the foundation.

Coral blocks were taken from the fort at Lahaina Harbor and re-purposed for the prison’s massive walls when it was built in the early 1850s to detain the rowdy whalers that were causing havoc in town, the foundation said. But then oil was discovered in 1859 and the demand for whale oil plummeted, causing the whaling ships and their crews to leave town, the foundation said. Then the prison fell into ruin.

In 1985, the Lahaina Restoration Foundation, in partnership with Maui County, restored the prison.

Anyone who may have information about the incident may contact the foundation at info@lahainarestoration.org or call 661-3262.

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