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Locke was once a thriving rural Chinese community. Today I think only about a dozen Chinese residents remain, and many of the town's buildings have been abandoned or fallen into disrepair.
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This sunflower is growing in the education garden at Wright-Locke Farm. That's the 1827 Barn, where the Locke family and their workers kept their horses and wagons.
CP's Hamilton work train, lead by CP 9017, puts the juice on after waiting for a handful of opposing trains at Locke on the Ham Sub, right in the middle of Steel Town. After holding in Milton the previous two nights, we saw another chance to bag 9017 and 6011 on the welded rail train the next morning, and after plenty of waiting around, she got the go-ahead through the tunnel to Kinnear Yard. After dumping rail at Kinnear, the work train headed east into Niagara for the tie up in Smithville, with plans to dump rail there in the morning before returning west to Hamilton.
Martin with what was once Rainbow lakes record carp. It as since been beaten, but at the time Zippy wasn't toooooooooooo happy.
Hew Locke was born in Edinburgh in 1959. He spent the years between 1966 to 1980 in Guyana.
Tate Britain, London
The Procession invites visitors to ‘reflect on the cycles of history, and the ebb and flow of cultures, people and finance and power.’ Tate Britain’s founder was art lover and sugar refining magnate Henry Tate. In the installation Locke says he ‘makes links with the historical after-effects of the sugar business, almost drawing out of the walls of the building,’ also revisiting his artistic journey so far, including for example work with statues, share certificates, cardboard, rising sea levels, Carnival and the military.
Throughout, visitors will see figures who travel through space and time. Here, they carry historical and cultural baggage, from evidence of global financial and violent colonial control embellished on their clothes and banners, alongside powerful images of some of the disappearing colonial architecture of Locke’s childhood in Guyana.
The installation takes inspiration from real events and histories but overall, the figures invite us to walk alongside them, into an enlarged vision of an imagined future.
"What I try to do in my work is mix ideas of attraction and ideas of discomfort – colourful and attractive, but strangely, scarily surreal at the same time".
Hew Locke
I went to Wright-Locke Farm for a second time today when I suspected a rainbow may appear. It did, weakly, but I also found many other things to photograph in the golden light. Above is the 1827 Barn (left) and the old Squash House.
I was nearby and saw the sun emerging from the clouds after a brief storm, so I took out my camera and went up the hill behind Wright-Locke Farm. I was rewarded when I turned around and saw this rainbow. The building on the right is the Squash House, the one in the middle is the 1827 Barn, and on the left is the old farmhouse, built in the early 1800s.
Yes its back wall is sagging, but it’s still standing. This is the back of the Star Theater, a Cantonese Opera House who’s backend sits on Main Street in the California Delta Community of Locke. Locke was founded in 1915 and the Star Theater opened on the same year, a rare for the time-period 3 story wooden structure. The town of Locke now known as the Locke Historic District, came to be in 1915 built by Chinese immigrants from Heungshan [Xiangshan] County (modern day Zhongshan) from Guangdong Province, China. The historical significance of Locke is that it is the most complete example of rural, agricultural Chinese American community in the United States. Many of the founding residents came from families that were recruited to build the Central Pacific contribution to the Transcontinental Railroad. OM Systems Olympus OM-D EM-1 Mark III Olympus M. Zuiko PRO 12-40mm f2.8 #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @kehcamera @mpbcom #omd #olympusphotography #olympus #microfourthirds #micro43photography #micro43 @visitcalifornia @nationalparkservice #lockecalifornia @tenbabags @saccounty
BNSF L-HLA680 southbound at Locke in Macomb, MO. Unfortunately this spot isn't shootable from the hill anymore due to all the trees but a drone does a decent job.
This is Will, a Nigerian dwarf goat. The Wright-Locke goats enjoyed a stroll through adjacent conservation land today, with families paying a small amount to join us. The goats ate foliage along the way, mainly pine needles. I wish I'd had vibration reduction enabled on my camera! There are few useable photos.
Hew Locke was born in Edinburgh in 1959. He spent the years between 1966 to 1980 in Guyana.
Tate Britain, London
The Procession invites visitors to ‘reflect on the cycles of history, and the ebb and flow of cultures, people and finance and power.’ Tate Britain’s founder was art lover and sugar refining magnate Henry Tate. In the installation Locke says he ‘makes links with the historical after-effects of the sugar business, almost drawing out of the walls of the building,’ also revisiting his artistic journey so far, including for example work with statues, share certificates, cardboard, rising sea levels, Carnival and the military.
Throughout, visitors will see figures who travel through space and time. Here, they carry historical and cultural baggage, from evidence of global financial and violent colonial control embellished on their clothes and banners, alongside powerful images of some of the disappearing colonial architecture of Locke’s childhood in Guyana.
The installation takes inspiration from real events and histories but overall, the figures invite us to walk alongside them, into an enlarged vision of an imagined future.
"What I try to do in my work is mix ideas of attraction and ideas of discomfort – colourful and attractive, but strangely, scarily surreal at the same time".
Hew Locke
Looking down a sidewalk in Locke, California. The town was created by the Chinese community of Walnut Grove, California on the Sacramento Delta. The name is from the original owner of the land, George Locke who cut a deal with the Chinese leaders allowing them to create the town.
The town of Locke, in the Sacramento River Delta, was built in 1915 by Chinese immigrants from Guangdong Province. The most complete remaining example of a rural Chinese American community in the US, it is designated a historic district by the National Park Service.
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Locke, Ca.
The delta swampland on which Locke was built on was home to Native American Miwok and Maidu tribes for hundreds of years. Tribal burial grounds exist on the Locke parcel.
Legislation such as the Swampland Reclamation Act of 1861 was enacted in California to put perceived empty and wasted lands to use and stabilization.[5] Much of this involved draining the Delta wetlands and building levees to regulate flood control in places like Locke.[5] Mainly poor Chinese immigrants were hired to do this backbreaking reclamation work.[6] Contracted labor was often paid the equivalent of less than one dollar a day per worker. They built hundreds of miles of levees in waist deep water where malaria still rampaged, reclaiming a total 88,000 acres (36,000 ha).[6]
In 1912, three Chinese merchants, two from the nearby town of Vorden and one from Walnut Grove, contracted tradesmen to construct three buildings. Chan Tin Sin built the first building. It was a combination dry goods store and beer saloon. Yuen Lai Sing built a gambling hall. Owyang Wing Cheong built the Lockeport Hotel & Restaurant.[7][8]
Following that early construction the Canton Hotel was built, along with several other buildings. A total of seven structures eventually formed the hamlet of Lockeport. Though some merchants hoped to provide a destination for riverboat and train passengers, the idea never worked due to the discrimination against Chinese during those times.[9] One of the homes built in the first phase of construction provided shelter for Chan Tin Sin's cousin Chan Chor Get and his family from the discriminatory acts and violence in San Francisco Chinatown.[10]
On October 7, 1915,[11] the Chinatown of nearby Walnut Grove was destroyed by an accidental fire. Afterwards, the Main Street section of Locke was established and settled by a group of Chinese immigrants[12] from what is now modern day Zhongshan in southern China's Guangdong province, headed by Lee Bing, a Chinese American businessman. Whereas Taishanese-speaking Chinese settlers remained in Walnut Grove after the fire to rebuild, the Cantonese-speaking Zhongshan Chinese settlers migrated to Locke to create a town of their own. The land was leased from George Locke as California law at the time forbade the selling of farmland to Asian immigrants by the California Alien Land Law of 1913.[4]
Due to its relatively large Chinese population at the time, the Chinese Kuomintang political party once had a local chapter in Locke. As the town grew, so did its reputation as a destination for illicit entertainment, gaining the nickname "California's Monte Carlo". At one point, it had five gambling halls, five brothels, speakeasies and opium dens.[13]
The population of Locke swelled with the growing season and harvest. Most of the reclaimed land in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta including Locke was used for cash crops, including asparagus, potato, sweet potatoes, white beans, pears, and apples.[6] There would be as many as 1000 to 1500 Chinese people living in Locke. Farmhands shared rooms in the boarding houses. Chinese residents living in the homes behind Main Street also took in Chinese farm laborers. Chinese immigrants in Locke started patterns in California agriculture that are continued today in the Sacramento-San Joaquin region, including contracted labor, tenant farming, sharecropping, and the piece wage system.[6] A community garden existed in the back and there was a special oven to make roast pigs on Sundays. Chinese communities congregated in solidarity under difficult labor and social conditions fostered by legislation such as the Chinese Exclusion Act, creating community gardens that maintained cultural relevancy in the form of growing Chinese cabbage, snow peas, leafy vegetables, winter melon, and tomatoes.[6] Baptist missionary Dr. Charles Shepherd would bring in his Chungmei home boys for the pear harvest at the end of July. Life in Locke had a great deal of accord. The Chinese mothers took care of each other's children when another mother had to go to work at the cannery across the River Road next to the riverboat docks of the Sacramento River.[9]
During the 1940s and 1950s, many of Locke's Chinese Americans, many of whom received better education, began joining the American mainstream by moving out of rural Locke and into the burgeoning suburbs of the major cities.[14]
The Locke Historic District is bounded on the west by the Sacramento River, on the north by Locke Rd., on the east by Alley St., and on the south by Levee St. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 1971.[1]
A Hong Kong-based developer purchased the town in 1977 from the Locke Heirs and sold it in 2002 to the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency.[15] In 2004, the agency finally allowed the sale of land to those who had been living on it for many years. There were plans to convert Locke into a housing development and tourist attraction. At the north end of Main Street, the restored Locke Boarding House museum (now owned by California State Parks) operates daily, staffed by volunteers. The Town of Locke celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2015, with a large gathering on May 9.
On July 3, 2016, a fire erupted on the second floor of the Locke Country Store on Main Street, which contained two apartments. The fire resulted in the complete destruction of the second floor of the building and a building behind the store. There were no injuries.[16]
The Locke Historic District was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 14, 1990.[2][17]