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Item Title
Town of Locke, Locke, Sacramento County, CA
Location
Locke, CA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CA-2071
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-94).
Building/structure dates:
1910 initial construction
National Register Number: 71000174
Significance: It is a town of frame structures built by Chinese immigrants carpenters and Caucasian carpenters between 1912 and 1922. The Chinese came to America in the 1850s during the Gold Rush and in the 1860s and 1870s labored on the railroads. They were then diverted to farm labor, and contributed to the development of California agriculture. The Sacramento-San Joaquin delta consisted of large ranches which grew wheat, and when mechanized, allowed the farms to specialize in vegetable and fruit crops...
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. OVERALL VIEW LOOKING WEST TOWARD BOAT HOUSE FROM ROOF OF CHRISTIAN CENTER ON KEY STREET
2. OVERALL VIEW OF TOWN LOOKING SOUTHWEST FROM ROOF OF CHRISTIAN CENTER
3. LOOKING SOUTHEAST ALONG KEY STREET FROM LOCKE ROAD; CHRISTIAN CENTER IS THIRD BUILDING FROM LEFT
4. LOOKING SOUTHEAST FROM WEST SIDE OF KEY STREET TOWARD CHRISTIAN CENTER
5. LOOKING SOUTH ALONG MAIN STREET FROM LOCKE ROAD; JOE SHOONG CHINESE SCHOOL IS IN FOREGROUND ON RIGHT
6. LOOKING NORTH ALONG MAIN STREET'S EAST SIDE
7. LOOKING SOUTHEAST ALONG MAIN STREET'S EAST SIDE
8. LOOKING NORTHEAST ALONG MAIN STREET TO LOCKE ROAD
9. LOOKING SOUTHEAST ALONG MAIN STREET IN DIRECTION OF LEVEE ROAD
10. LOOKING NORTH ALONG MAIN STREET FROM LEVEE ROAD
11. LOOKING SOUTH ON RIVER ROAD ALONG WEST FRONTS OF BUILDINGS
12. LOOKING SOUTH ALONG BOARDWALK OF BUILDINGS ON WEST SIDE OF RIVER ROAD
13. LOOKING NORTH ALONG BOARDWALK ON RIVER ROAD
14. WORKER HOUSING SOUTH OF TOWN NEAR SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD TRACKS; GENERAL VIEW LOOKING NORTHWEST IN DIRECTION OF BOAT HOUSE
15. VIEW OF COMMUNAL GARDENS EAST OF TOWN BEHIND KEY STREET HOUSES; VIEW IS LOOKING WEST SHOWING TOWN AND BOAT HOUSE IN BACKGROUND
16. GENERAL OVERALL VIEW OF COMMUNAL GARDENS LOOKING EAST FROM ROOF OF CHRISTIAN CENTER
17. DETAIL VIEW SHOWING FENCED IN GARDEN PLOT IN COMMUNAL GARDENS
18. DETAIL VIEW OF INDIVIDUAL PLOT WITHIN COMMUNAL GARDENS
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