Category: Rock Springs Chinatown

In July, Grinnell College, Western Anthropological & Archaeological Research Institute, and descendants of historic Rock Springs Chinese residents (Lian Lew and Ricky Leo), teamed up to excavate the city’s former Chinatown in rural southwestern Wyoming. After two and half weeks, the students returned to Grinnell College to do some artifact washing for a week. They…

Hello everyone! This is Julia and I’m here to tell you about some of my favorite artifacts that we have been cataloging from Rock Springs Chinatown: porcelain house wiring cleats. Wiring cleats were used in an early interior wiring method called Knob-and-Tube wiring. In this method, wires, insulated with rubber or thermoplastic, were run through…