Evanston

The fire the board dates came at the end, not the height. By January 1922 only about a dozen Chinese still lived in Evanston; the Union Pacific, which owned the ground under Chinatown, had ordered them out of the temple, and white townspeople had already raided the emptying quarter. Sources give the temple's building date as both 1874 and 1894. In 1990, for the state centennial, Evanston built a replica on Depot Square that displays carved panels saved from the original, and excavation of the Chinatown site has turned up more than 300,000 artifacts.

What the plaque says

Evanston Evanston was established by the Union Pacific Railroad Company late in 1868. In the first county election, September 6, 1870, Evanston was chosen county seat Union Pacific Railroad shops moved here in the fall of 1871. Timber and sawmill operations were the leading business. Cattle and sheep ranching became the basic industry of Unita county In the '70s and early '80s, a Chinese Joss House one of the three in the United States, attracted thousands of Chinese for Chinese New Year's Day ceremonies. About four hundred Chinese normally lived in China Town and worked in the Almy coal mines. The Joss House burned on January 26, 1922.

Where it stands

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