During the 19th century, thousands of Chinese immigrants came to Maui to help construct roads and to work in the sugar plantations and mills. A Chinatown evolved in present-day Lahaina. To support their cultural traditions, they formed a fraternal group named the Wo Hing Society. In 1912, they built this meeting hall. It was restored in 1983 by the Lahaina Restoration Foundation and is now a museum. Out front is a monument to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a revolutionary who once lived in Lahaina and went on to become the “Father of Modern China.”
