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Locke, the town Chinese Americans built for themselves
1915
Locke, California
Kuyttewaal · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
After a fire burned the Chinese quarter of Walnut Grove, the residents leased land downriver and built their own town, the only settlement in America built by Chinese for Chinese. California law barred them from owning the ground under their houses until 1952. The wooden main street is still standing.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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