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  • The Society & Museum
    • About Us
    • Land Acknowledgement Statement
    • Mission Statement
    • Board
    • OHS-BHM Annual Reports to City Council
    • Strategic Plan
    • OHS & BHM Gerry L. Alexander Award for Outstanding Achievement in Heritage
    • OHS-BHM Vision Statement for Old City Hall & Fire Station
    • OHS-BHM Video/Photo Agreement
    • Membership
    • Contact Us
    • Get Involved!
  • Research Olympia history
    • Resources
      • Bibliography
      • Geographic Resources
      • Photos and films
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    • Where Are We? Historic and heritage sites
      • Interactive Map
      • Where Are We? Contents
    • Who are we? Area residents 1845-1930
    • The Sanborn Overlays – Introduction
      • The Sanborn Overlays – Instructions and Tips
      • 1884
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      • 1924 and 1947
    • Sylvester’s Window
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May 17, 2012

Olympia’s Historic Chinese Community – Links

UncategorizedBy Olympia Historical SocietyMay 17, 2012

Related Sites Chinese and Asian American History Becoming American: The Chinese Experience The Chinese American Experience, 1857-1892 Historical Societies, Museums, and Exhibits: Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA The Mai Wah…

Olympia’s Historic Chinese Community – Interpretive Marker

UncategorizedBy Olympia Historical SocietyMay 17, 2012

The dedication of the Olympia Chinatown Historical Marker took place May 22, 2004 at Heritage Park. Interpretive Marker located in Heritage Park, near the site of Olympia’s last Chinatown  …

Olympia’s Historic Chinese Community – Chinese Cemetery

UncategorizedBy Olympia Historical SocietyMay 17, 2012

At Forest Memorial Gardens, 2501 Pacific Ave., Olympia Marker for Locke Mai Tuck Edward Echtle photo   As late as the 1930s members of Olympia’s Chinese community still gathered at Forest…

Olympia’s Historic Chinese Community – Families

UncategorizedBy Olympia Historical SocietyMay 17, 2012

Due to immigration restrictions it was prohibitively expensive and legally difficult for most Chinese men to bring a wife and family members to America. Nevertheless, a small but significant number of…

Olympia’s Historic Chinese Community – Market Gardens

UncategorizedBy Olympia Historical SocietyMay 17, 2012

By the 1870s some of Olympia’s Chinese residents earned their keep as market gardeners.  In fact, they were so efficient they effectively cornered the local produce market for some years. …

Olympia’s Historic Chinese Community – Restaurants

UncategorizedBy Olympia Historical SocietyMay 17, 2012

  Restaurants were a pioneer business for Chinese immigrants.  Many early Chinese found employment as cooks for affluent families, at lumber camps and in hotels and rooming houses and learned…

Olympia’s Historic Chinese Community – Laundries

UncategorizedBy Olympia Historical SocietyMay 17, 2012

A number of Chinese owned laundries existed in Olympia over the years.  As laundries required little start up capital, they were often the first business a recent Chinese immigrant could…

Olympia’s Historic Chinese Community – Chinatowns

UncategorizedBy Olympia Historical SocietyMay 17, 2012

The International Chinese Business Directory of the World for the Year 1913 Over the years Olympia’s main Chinese quarters were located in three places.  Available records show the earliest Chinatown…

Olympia’s Historic Chinese History – Railroads and Riots

UncategorizedBy Olympia Historical SocietyMay 17, 2012

    Chinese railroad section hands at the  Tenino Northern Pacific Railroad depot, early 1880s WSHS Image In the early 1870s construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad in western Washington brought…

Echtle: Olympia’s Historic Chinese Community

ArticlesBy Olympia Historical SocietyMay 17, 2012

by Edward Echtle     This series of articles about the Chinese in Olympia was prepared by Edward Echtle, Olympia historian, for the Olympia Historical Society website. The Society is…

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