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The Life and Labor of Lock Chong Choong
Read more: The Life and Labor of Lock Chong ChoongHey everyone! George here, and this post will be a little less artifact-related, and more about history. Let’s begin with this: What did Chinese migrants do for a living in Evanston or the city’s Chinatown? If you answered coal miner, this assumption would only be partially correct. While coal mining was the most common profession…
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Newspaper article on Evanston Chinatown history and archaeology
Read more: Newspaper article on Evanston Chinatown history and archaeologyToday is the second day of the Spring semester at Grinnell College and we are back in the archaeology lab continuing to catalog artifacts from the Evanston Chinatown with research assistants Evan Albaugh and George Matthes. Over the winter break, archaeologist and project collaborator Dr. Dudley Gardner was interviewed by the Cowboy State Daily on…
Category: History
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