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San Jose's first Chinatown was located at the southwest corner of Market and San Fernando streets, near the present-day Circle of Palms Plaza. City officials noted the Chinese presence by 1866. [ 3 ] By January 1870, white residents had begun complaining to the San Jose City Council about the concentration of Chinese people in the neighborhood.
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.
One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [ 6 ] The first municipalities to incorporate were Benicia and San Jose on March 27, 1850, while the most recent was Oakley on July 1, 1999. [ 7 ]
Heinlenville (Chinese: 海因倫鎮; [5] also called the Sixth Street Chinatown 六街唐人埠 and San Jose Chinatown 散那些唐人埠 [6]) was a Chinese-American ethnic enclave in San Jose, California. Established in 1887 and demolished in 1931, it was the last and longest-lasting of San Jose's five Chinatowns.
San Jose, California – racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop. 2000 [120] Pop. 2010 [121] Pop. 2020 [122] % 2000 ...
It is a hub for Silicon Valley's Vietnamese community and one of the largest Little Saigons in the world, [1] as San Jose has more Vietnamese residents than any city outside of Vietnam. [2] Vietnamese Americans and immigrants in San Jose make up ten percent of the city’s population and about eight percent of the county and South Bay Area.
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In 1850, San Jose incorporated to become California's first city and the location of California's first state capitol. Despite widespread destruction caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , a number of neighborhoods around Downtown San Jose still retain their original, pre-1906 housing stock.