Chinese Workers in Beaver Falls

Chinese Workers in Beaver Falls is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Beaver Falls, Beaver County, dedicated 2021.

7th Ave & 3rd St., Beaver Falls

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Following labor disputes with their local employees, the Beaver Falls Cutlery Company contracted with Chinese workers from San Francisco and New Orleans in 1872. Hired to work at the Harmonist-owned factory, they were among the first Chinese immigrants in Pa. In 1882 a wave of anti-Chinese sentiment led Congress to pass the highly restrictive Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited nearly all immigration from China until it was repealed in 1943.

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1860 · Ohio (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1871 · Colton's Township Pennsylvania (1871) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1871 · Johnson's Ohio (1871) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1878 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Beaver, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Pennsylvania, 1878, covering the location of Chinese Workers in Beaver Falls, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Pennsylvania, 1878, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Chinese Workers in Beaver Falls

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