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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.
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.
Market Street Chinatown Archaeological Project (Report). Stanford, California: Stanford Archaeology Center and Stanford University Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology. Yu, Connie Young (2001). Chinatown, San Jose, USA. San Jose Historical Museum Association. ISBN 978-0914139126.
The city of San Jose, California, formally apologized for an act of arson in 1887 that destroyed its Chinatown, devastating the city’s Chinese immigrant
The San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County is the single largest concentration of combined Chinese and Taiwanese Americans in the country, [13] having a collections of U.S. suburbs with large foreign-born Chinese-speaking populations, ranging from working-class individuals residing in Rosemead and El Monte to wealthier immigrants ...
San Jose was home to five Chinatowns that existed until the 1930s. [30] The initial Chinatowns in San Jose were frequently burned down by arson. [31] Another Chinatown was excavated during an urban renewal project to build the Fairmont Hotel and Silicon Valley Financial Center on Market and San Fernando Streets. [32]
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Cupertino is in Silicon Valley, west of San Jose, with Los Altos to the north and Saratoga to the south. As one of the densest cities on this list—with 60,681 residents as of 2021—it’s not ...