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Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

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Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

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Summary

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in the 1850s with the immigration of Chinese nationals seeking gold.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-733
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N896
Survey number: HABS CA-1452
Building/structure dates: 1874 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1956-1957 Subsequent Work

In the 19th century, a majority of Chinese immigrants were single men who worked for a while and returned home. At first, they were attracted to North America by the gold rush in California. A relatively large group of Chinese immigrated to the United States between the start of the California gold rush in 1849 and 1882, before federal law stopped their immigration. After the gold rush, Chinese immigrants worked as agricultural laborers, on railroad construction crews throughout the West, and in low-paying industrial jobs. Soon, many opened their own businesses such as restaurants, laundries, and other personal service concerns. With the onset of hard economic times in the 1870s, European immigrants and Americans began to compete for the jobs traditionally reserved for the Chinese. Such competition was accompanied by anti-Chinese sentiment, riots, and pressure, especially in California, for the exclusion of Chinese immigrants from the United States. The result was the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed by Congress in 1882. This Act virtually ended Chinese immigration for nearly a century.

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Lee, Moon
Fong, Ah
Baldwin, Jennifer L, transmitter
Cardwell, Kenneth H, field team
Aoki, Alan, field team
Dixon, Jon, field team
Hale, Kelley, field team
Heynen, Robert, field team
Tonnemacher, Dan, field team
Uhte, Robert F, project manager
Schara, Mark, project manager
Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter
Martin, Mary Kile, photographer
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
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Location

Weaverville (Calif.)40.73192, -122.96226
Google Map of 40.7319154, -122.962263
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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