A community moved, rebuilt, and preserved memory.
Move through the major chapters without losing your place: settlement, exclusion, fire, successor communities, archaeology, and public memory.
Second Market Street Chinatown
Market and San Fernando Streets
The second Market Street Chinatown became the largest of San Jose's five Chinatowns and was later burned in 1887.
Stanford credits this circa 1880 photograph of Market Street Chinatown to Andrew P. Hill and History San Jose collections.
The contemporary memory-walk tile labels the second Market Street Chinatown within the sequence of five San Jose Chinatowns.
CHCP notes that the Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project is featured near the beginning of this video.
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The sequence moves from displacement to rebuilding, then from archaeological recovery to public memory. Use the group cards above to jump between chapters.