Locke in the News
Locke Linked In
There is a plethora of Locke material one can discover both in print and on the internet. Some are historical records and others are reflections from visitors and journalists who promote a vital part of California’s history, the American West and the first Chinese to immigrate to the United States.
Historical
Sacramento County Historial Society
International World History Project:
‘Asian Americans’
Heritage We Renounce, ‘Delta Blues: Chinese Workers and the Building of the CA levee 1860-1880′
Chinese in Northwest America Research Committee
SFSU Asian American Studies | essays
Historical Architecture Buildings Survey
National Parks Service ‘Locke and Walnut Grove: Havens for Early Asian Immigrants’
In the Press
‘They are ordinary, therefore they are extraordinary’: Family research project sheds light on history of Chinese Americans in the Delta by Hannah Weaver, featuring Lili Kan
Structure destroyed by fire in historic Chinese town of Locke July 3, 2016
Locke defines its place in history by Jessica Kwong
In Locke, The Past is Growing by Andrea Thompson, Edible Sacramento
New Yorker, ‘The Last Chinatown’ by Calvin Trillin
Newsweek, ‘Keep Locke Weird’ by Alexander Nazaryan
KCET ‘From Gold Mountain to Orange Farms’, By Ed Fuentes
SF Examiner, ‘Locke, A Ghost town in the Sacramento River Delta, California’ by Wayne and Judy Bayliff
Leadership Training Room, Locke: America’s Last Rural Chinese Town’ by professor Leigh
VIA Magazine, ‘California Delta: Locke’ by Josh Sens River News Herald
Record.net: ‘Locke Dusts Off Forgotten History’ by Jennifer Torres
Locke, 2010 by Luis Sinco, LA Times
Locke Garden Restaurant owner, Catherine Zhang ‘Keep Locke Weird’ Newsweek, 2014
Locke in the Media
Take a look at Locke: The historic Chinese American town built in 1915