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Chinese Cemetery (Idaho)

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Built
  
1800s

Area
  
50.22 kmĀ²

NRHP Reference #
  
94000270

Added to NRHP
  
29 March 1994

Chinese Cemetery (Idaho)

Location
  
Payette National Forest, 0.5 miles northwest of Warren Wagon Rd. at B, Warren, Idaho, United States

Chinese Cemetery, also known as Chinese Cemetery, Warren Mining District, is a cemetery located near Warren, Idaho. It is the only ethnic Chinese cemetery in Idaho that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was listed on March 29, 1994. The cemetery was created to hold the remains of Chinese migrant laborers who came to Idaho to work as miners, though many of the bodies have since been exhumed and returned to China.

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Chinese Cemetery (Idaho) Wikipedia