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Brushed metal plaque № 48796

Dayton, NV, United States

Dayton Chinatown. Dayton is the site of Nevada’s first China Town. By the mid-nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of immigrants from China, along with immigrants from Japan and Korea, moved to the United States, They were pushed by economic disruption in their home countries and pulled by the

promises of gold and employment in the Rocky Mountain West.The Dayton Chinese were hired by Edward Rose in August 1857 to dig the four-mile Rose Ditch from the mouth of the Carson River west of town t

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