Amended in Assembly July 16, 2015

Amended in Assembly June 19, 2015

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 55

Introduced by Senator Pan

(Coauthor: Senator Wolk)

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(Coauthor: Assembly Member Frazier)

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(Coauthors: Assembly Members Frazier, Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Atkins, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O’Donnell, Olsen, Patterson, Perea, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, and Wood)

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May 5, 2015

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 55—Relative to the centennial of the founding of Locke, California.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SCR 55, as amended, Pan. Centennial of the founding of Locke, California.

This measure would commemorate the centennial of the founding of Locke, California, would recognize and honor Locke, California, as the last remaining Chinatown in North America, and would urge all Californians to learn about the important history of Locke, California, and its inhabitants.

Fiscal committee: no.

WHEREAS, The year 2015 marks the centennial of the founding
of Locke, California; and

WHEREAS, Locke, California, is the only town in the United
States of America built exclusively by the Chinese for the Chinese,
and is the last remaining Chinatown in North America, as all other
Chinatowns are connected to, or lay adjacent to, an existing town
or city; and

WHEREAS, Locke, California, was found in 1915 after the
Chinese section of Walnut Grove, California, was destroyed by a
fire and the Chinese inhabitants decided that it was time to establish
a town of their own; and

WHEREAS, The inhabitants of Locke, California, have made
tremendous contributions to farming methods that spearheaded
California’s leadership in agriculture, especially as it pertained to
pear orchards and asparagus fields; and

WHEREAS, Locke, California, was instrumental in reclaiming
swamps along the Sacramento River Delta and turning them into
rich arable farmlands; and

WHEREAS, Levee construction originally brought the Chinese
to the area, but by the time Locke, California, was built most of
the jobs in the area were in farming, which resulted in Locke,
California, having many businesses that catered to the farm workers
and residents of the region; and

WHEREAS, From the 1920s through the 1940s, Locke,
California, had a permanent population of 600, which swelled to
1,000 during the harvest season; and

WHEREAS, In 1970, Locke, California, was added to the
Registry of National Historic Places by the Sacramento County
Historical Society; and

WHEREAS, In 1990, Locke, California, was named as a
National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of
the Interior; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature commemorates the
centennial of the founding of Locke, California, and urges all
Californians to learn about the important history of Locke,
California, and its inhabitants; and be it further

Resolved, That the Legislature recognizes and honors Locke,
California, as the last remaining Chinatown in North America; and
be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.