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The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, (Chinese: 唐人街; pinyin: tángrénjiē; Jyutping: tong4 jan4 gaai1) is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia.
In 1893, the San Francisco Call confidently bragged that according to an agent from the United States Department of Labor, there were no slums in the city. Although Chinatown was mentioned as a notable exception, the "unsavory, unsightly quarter" was thought to be "rapidly growing smaller and may finally reach the vanishing point" as immigration had been throttled by the Chinese Exclusion Act ...
In March 1870, a wealthy Chinese businessman from San Francisco secured a ten-year lease of the original Market Street Chinatown's land and merchants began to rebuild. A competing Chinatown also sprang up on Vine Street, near the Guadalupe River, but its residents returned to Market Street after severe flooding in 1871–1872. [7]
Until 1966, CHSA held meetings in different peoples' homes, when the Shoong Foundation "donated" (rented at a low cost) a small space in a building that the foundation owned at 17 Adler Place [3] (Off 1140 Grant Avenue) (now Jack Kerouac Alley, San Francisco, CA 94133) to function as a museum, and a first permanent headquarters.
Broad Avenue, Koreatown in Palisades Park, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA, [6] where Koreans comprise the majority (52%) of the population. [7] India Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, is one of at least 24 Indian American enclaves characterized as a Little India which have emerged within the New York City Metropolitan Area, with the largest metropolitan Indian population ...
No, not the one in San Francisco, the one in Fresno. Just west of Chukchansi Park and the railroad tracks sits downtown’s less well known sister, Chinatown, a neighborhood born in the 1870s.
Official Map of Chinatown Full TItle: Official map of Chinatown in San Francisco : prepared under the supervision of the special committee of the Board of Supervisors. July 1885.
In the latter part of the 19th century, however, British Columbia also came to be referred to as "Gold Mountain" following the discovery of gold in the Fraser Canyon in the 1857 and the subsequent group of Chinese from San Francisco arriving by boat in June 1858, and further Chinese settlers coming from California and directly from China later ...