Name/Title
W. F. MossmanDescription
W. F. Mossman (1887-1894)[he also served as customs collector at Kahului, formerly postmaster at Wailuku and future postmaster at Hamakuapoko; Mossman waffled in 1893 about whether he would keep the Kahului PM post and then tried to hang onto both the Kahului and Hamakuapoko postmasterships, running Kahului with a series of acting PMs.Created By
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May 20, 2023Update Date
May 20, 2023
![For reference only - Post Office in Paradise Website: Detail of Donn’s 1903 update of the 1885 Hawaiian Government Survey map [accessed 2019 at David Rumsey’s website: /Search/Maui/Dodge, F.S., Donn, John] [red dots are post offices, blue dots are schools]. The map shows Kahului on the left, Paia center right, Hamakuapoko farther right near the border with the Haiku district, and Haiku far right. For scale, a straight line between Kahului and Haiku is about 9.8 miles; and between Paia and Haiku only about 3.1 miles but that distance is a bit misleading because Maliko Gorge (the gray shaded area to the right of the red district border line running top to bottom between Hamakuapoko and Haiku) was an obstacle. Donn’s updates reflect the state of affairs in 1903, after a territorial post office was opened at Haiku.](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/10756/0ff82d40-f73a-11ed-a89c-f7641a5046a0-vXxhjbq.lg@2x.jpg)