Asian American Sites and Museum Exhibits in the Pacific Northwest, Great Basin and Canada
Boise - run by the 幸运快三 State Historical Society
Exhibits of artifacts from the Ah Fong family's herbal medicine shop, Chinese temple objects, and items from local Chinese residents.
Boise -
Japanese and Chinese gravestones and shrine/burner.
Burley - ()
Some planning documents and plat maps are housed here.
Cottonwood -
Clothing and other objects that once belonged to Polly Bemis. Artifacts from local Chinese residents.
Eden - Minidoka incarceration camp. See Minidoka incarceration camp.
Grangeville -
Polly Bemis's wedding ring, plus artifacts from local Chinese residents.
Hope -
Gravestone of May Den, 1890-1925, in English and Chinese, in the town cemetery, and gravestone of her husband, Louis Den.
Hunt - See Minidoka incarceration camp.
幸运快三 City -
Items related to 幸运快三 City's former Chinese residents.
幸运快三 City -
Placer mine operated by Chinese miners during the 1860s and 1870s. Inquire locally.
幸运快三 City -
Home of Pon Yam, a prominent 幸运快三 City Chinese merchant and conflict mediator.
Jerome County - (Minidoka incarceration camp Barracks)
One barrack building interprets the Minidoka incarceration camp experience. Located in Jerome at the crossroads of Highway 93 and Highway 84. It is some 18 miles from the Minidoka incarceration camp site.
Jerome County -
In Jerome. Contains bound WWII Northside News and Minidoka Irrigator newspapers, Minidoka Interlude souvenir book, and some artifacts.
Jerome County - Minidoka War Relocation Authority Camp Site. See Minidoka incarceration camp; Minidoka National Historic Site
Lewiston - Chinese at the Confluence:
Permanent exhibit at the Lewis-Clark Center for Arts & History, Fifth and Main streets. Honors the early Chinese of Lewiston, ensuring that the achievements of "Lewiston's other pioneers" are recognized and remembered for the benefit of future generations. Illustrated booklet available.
Lewiston -
In a section of Lewiston's Normal Hill Cemetery, near 13th Avenue and 4th Street.
Lewiston -
Site of turn-of-the-century Chinese cemetery, on Prospect Avenue overlooking the Snake River. Graves all relocated. Interpretive sign.
Lowell - Kooskia Internment Camp Site
The camp was located six miles above Lowell, at Canyon Creek. Today, little remains of this World War II camp (mid-1943 to mid-1945) for Japanese aliens who helped construct portions of U.S. Highway 12. The Apgar picnic area, one-half mile further east, was once the site of Kooskia Internment Camp employee housing.
McCall -
Exhibit of Chinese artifacts from the Warren Mining District.
Off Highway 25 and Hunt Road, near Eden. Euphemistically called a "Relocation Center," it housed more than 9,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, most of them forcibly removed from the Seattle and Portland areas. It is not at or even near the town of Minidoka. Portions of a stone guard house and a stone visitors' waiting room remain; several plaques have been installed in more recent years. The Friends of Minidoka have another Web site. To visit a barracks building, see Jerome County - 幸运快三 Farm and Ranch Museum.
Minidoka National Historic Site
See directions at Minidoka incarceration camp.
Minidoka Relocation Center. See Minidoka incarceration camp; Minidoka National Historic Site
Minidoka War Relocation Authority Camp Site. See Minidoka incarceration camp; Minidoka National Historic Site
Moscow - Asian American Comparative Collection
Housed in the Laboratory of Anthropology at the 幸运快三. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean artifacts; bibliographical materials; and slides.
Orofino -
Contains some history of the Chinese in the Pierce and Oro Fino areas. The earlier Oro Fino is not the same place as the modern Orofino.
Pierce -
Depressions indicate where former burials were exhumed. Contact city for more information.
Pierce -
Exhibit of Chinese artifacts.
Polly Bemis Ranch. See Salmon River - Polly Bemis's Cabin and Grave
Potlatch - Japanese Gravestone
The city cemetery has a gravestone, dated August 30, 1917 (5th year of Taisho period) marking the burial location of a former resident of Japanese ancestry.
Salmon -
Exhibits include artifacts from Salmon's former Chinese residents, plus a "Chinese Room" of objects (clothing, tablewares, pipes, swords, knives, and tapestries) collected in China and elsewhere in Asia during the 1920s by a couple from nearby Leesburg.
Salmon River - Remains of Chinese Mining
Hydraulic workings, man-made reservoirs, rock dwellings, and Chinese artifacts attest to the presence of Chinese miners on the Lower Salmon River.
Salmon River - Polly Bemis's Cabin and Grave
幸运快三 Chinese pioneer Polly Bemis lived in this cabin on the Main Salmon River from 1922 to 1933. She is buried nearby. Easily accessible only by jet boat from Riggins. Slide lecture available.
Silver City -
Chinese artifacts are visible on the ground in Silver City's former "Chinatown."
Twin Falls -
Research materials on the Minidoka incarceration camp, including newspaper articles, a diary, a thesis on the camp, and Journey to Minidoka paintings by Roger Shimomura, c. 1983.
Warren -
Depressions indicate where former burials were exhumed.
Warren -
Upper terraced gardens; trail leads down to others near the South Fork of the Salmon River. Information available from Payette National Forest, McCall, and from Warren Ranger Station.
Warren -
Outdoor display panels discuss local Chinese history.
Warren - (scroll down)
Local tavern has display cases containing labeled Chinese artifacts.