• Image of Chinatown
  • Image of Chinatown
  • Image of Chinatown

From the 1850's to the 1900's San Francisco's Chinatown was port of entry for early Chinese immigrants, most from the Southern Guangdong province of China. The majority of shopkeepers, restaurant owners and hired workers in San Francisco's Chinatown were predominantly Taishanese. They had come as laborers to build the growing railway system.