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Chinese Spring is a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park’s Upper Geyser Basin, near the Old Faithful group and Blue Star Spring in a highly active thermal area. Formerly called Chinaman Spring, it was renamed in 1990 to remove the offensive earlier term. The old name was linked either to a Chinese immigrant said to have washed laundry there in the 1850s or, by another account, to two Japanese men who operated a laundry service nearby, so the name’s origin remains uncertain. Though identified as a hot spring, it has at times behaved like a geyser; in 1885 Morrison R. Waite reported seeing it erupt, and rare bursts still can reach about 20 feet for roughly two minutes.
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