Dr. Gloria Hom shares the remarkable life story of her grandfather, Thomas Foon Chew, who was a very successful Chinese-American businessman during the early 20th Century, in the Chinese Exclusion Act period in California. Settling in the South Bay, he became a cannery magnate, starting and ...
Samuel Shaw John O’Donnell initiated trade between Canton, China and Baltimore in 1785, operating his own merchant sailing vessels. While the Baltimore-China trade was short-lived, it involved many of our early Founding Fathers. On February 24, join John Danz to learn ...
https://www.mountvernon.org/ Take Metrorail's Yellow Line to Huntington Station. Exit at the lower level of the station (Huntington Avenue) to catch a Fairfax Connector bus to Mount Vernon. Board the Fairfax Connector Bus #101, the Fort Hunt Line, for a 20-minute trip to Mount Vernon ...
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/20009482 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/baltimore-and-ohio-railroad-civil-war The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (BO) was one of the oldest and most historically significant railroad co ...
https://www.vintagemaineimages.com/record/10366/cart Dogan Goon was born about 1893 in southwestern China. He later immigrated to the United States, eventually making his way to Boston by 1917. In August of that year, he was arrested by a Chinese Inspector for violation of the Chine ...