Quong Wing & Co. / Harold Smith & Sons / Norton / Harper’s Weekly / Scottwall Associates / Simmons / Hop Wah &Co / Stanford University Press / /
Country
China / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Man-Made Disaster / /
Facility
Chinatown’s Taoist temple / St. Helena Library St. Helena Cemetery / US District Court / Ginger’s China Store / Quon Loong High China Store / Cantonese restaurant / /
Holiday
Chinese New Year / /
IndustryTerm
labor contractor / train car load / rail car / /
NaturalFeature
Napa Valley / /
Organization
Napa and Calistoga / Charley’s Wash House / Anti-Chinese / Stanford University / Chinese Historical Society of America Napa County / Book Club of California / US District Court / Stanford / Anti-Coolie league / /
Person
John Gillam / Henri Pellet / Davis / Thomas W. Chinn / Logan / Yee Kay / Lee Hau / Phillip P. Choy / William F. Heintz San Francisco / Denis Kearney / Charles B. Turrill / H. Mark Lai / Richard H. Dillon / /
Position
Editor / prominent labor contractor / first mayor / labor contractor / Napa lawyer / /
St. Helena’s Chinese Heritage By Mariam Hansen June 2011 In 1868 the Napa Valley Railroad construction crews reached St. Helena. They needed large amounts of gravel from our gravel quarry to lay down the base for the t