TRANSPORTATION · HISTORICAL MARKER

Chinese Railroad Workers

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About 1000 feet from this location is the track of the Transcontinental Railroad. In 1865 thousands of Chinese in Kwantung Provence China were recruited to work on this great connection between the East and West Coast. Those Chinese laborers worked for Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific Railroad.
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