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Chinese Camp, California
Photo: Cary Bass, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chinese Camp was a Gold Rush town settled by Chinese miners and later a stage stop, and it is California Historical Landmark 423. Historians connect it with the first tong war and say mining lasted into the 1870s, and the last Chinese residents left in the early 1920s. The 1855 St. Francis Xavier church and weathered storefronts stand along the road, most of them private and unsafe to enter.
Look from the street and respect residents; the buildings are deteriorating.
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