Editing Lahaina, Hawaii (section)

==== Kamehameha III ====
[[File:Lahaina, Maui, T.H. - Formerly the Capital - NARA - 296063.jpg|thumb|left|{{Circa|1903}}–1910]]
[[Kamehameha III]] resided in a traditional royal compound on the sacred island of [[Mokuʻula]] located on Mokuhinia lake in the middle of Lahaina from 1837 to 1845.{{sfn|Klieger|1998|page=ix}}{{sfn|Kam|2022|pages=38–40}} He built a two-story, Western-style palace in 1838 named Hale Piula, although it was not completed before the court moved.{{sfn|Kam|2022|pages=40–41}}{{sfn|Klieger|1998|page=84}} During his residence, Kamehameha III signed and proclaimed the first [[1840 Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom|Hawaiian constitution]] on October 8, 1840, at Luaʻehu, in Lahaina. The [[Legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom|legislature]]'s first meeting was held on April 1, 1841, also at Luaʻehu.{{sfn|Kamakau|1992|pages=370, 398}}{{sfn|Spaulding|1930|pages=25–33}} With the growing commercial importance of Oʻahu, Kamehameha III moved the capital to [[Honolulu]] in 1845.<ref name="BartelsPW">{{cite web|last=Bartels|first=Jim|title=ʻIolani Palace|work=Pacific World|url=http://www.pacificworlds.com/nuuanu/native/native4.cfm|access-date=2010-04-07|archive-date=August 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831222302/http://www.pacificworlds.com/nuuanu/native/native4.cfm|url-status=live}}</ref> Hale Piula was then transformed into a courthouse until it was heavily damaged in an 1858 storm. The following year, the [[Old Lahaina Courthouse]] was built as a replacement courthouse and customhouse at a site near the old fort.<ref name="Apple1973" />{{sfn|Kam|2022|pages=40–41}}
[[File:Banyan-tree-Lahaina-Hawaii.jpg|alt=The banyan tree in Courthouse Square is the largest banyan tree in the United States.|thumb|250x250px|Lahaina banyan tree]]
A [[Banyan tree in Lahaina|banyan tree]] (''[[Ficus benghalensis]]'') was planted near the site of Kamehameha I's first palace by [[William Owen Smith]] on April 24, 1873, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Christian missionaries. It survived as the oldest banyan tree in the state.{{sfn|Clark|2001|page=23}}