Locke, California
Sacramento County · Population 70 · Card no. 6944
A Delta town built by and for Chinese laborers in 1915, the only such town in America built entirely by Chinese immigrants.
- Residents could not own the land, so they leased it and built anyway.
- The whole town is a National Historic Landmark.
- Fewer than a hundred people live there now.
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