Existing comment:
Chinese Stores:
Between 1850 and 1883, Colona was home to a sizeable Chinese community. These stone buildings, known as the Man Lee and Wah Hop stores, are all that remain.
Chinese merchants supplied their countrymen with mining necessities and items from their homeland. Their stores served as places to gather. After a fire destroyed Coloma's Chinese quarter in 1883, most of the Chinese miners and merchants left town. |