Mokuʻula is a tiny island now buried beneath an abandoned baseball field in Maluʻulu o Lele Park, Lahaina, Hawaiʻi.
It was the private residence of King Kamehameha III from 1837 to 1845 and the burial site of several Hawaiian royals.
The 1-acre (4,000 m²) island was and continues to be considered sacred to many Hawaiians as a piko, or symbolic center of energy and power.
 According to Klieger, "the moated palace of Mokuʻula...was a place of the "Sacred Red Mists," an oasis of rest and calm during the raucous, rollicking days of Pacific whaling."
When the capital of Hawaiʻi moved from Lahaina to Honolulu, Mokuʻula fell into disrepair.
By 1919, the county turned the land into a park.
Efforts were made to revive the site, but seem to have stalled
It was added to the Hawaiʻi State Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1994, and to the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 1997 as King Kamehameha III's Royal Residential Complex.
Mokuʻula is a tiny island now buried beneath an abandoned baseball field in Maluʻulu o Lele Park, Lahaina, Hawaiʻi. It was the private residence of King Kamehameha III from 1837 to 1845 and the burial site of several Hawaiian royals. The 1-acre (4,000 m²) island was and continues to be considered sacred to many Hawaiians as a piko, or symbolic center of energy and power.  According to Klieger, "the moated palace of Mokuʻula...was a place of the "Sacred Red Mists," an oasis of rest and calm during the raucous, rollicking days of Pacific whaling." When the capital of Hawaiʻi moved from Lahaina to Honolulu, Mokuʻula fell into disrepair. By 1919, the county turned the land into a park. Efforts were made to revive the site, but seem to have stalled
It was added to the Hawaiʻi State Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1994, and to the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 1997 as King Kamehameha III's Royal Residential Complex.
Mokuʻula