Asian America Camp, please!

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FriendlySquall@reddit

Walter, this isn't a guy who built the railroads here!

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2wheelsThx@reddit

Actually, in this case it's possible some of the people who lived there did work on the railroads. No, I am not a fucking historical ranger now.

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It’s a stretch. The railroads were built in the 1860s. The internment camps were 1942-1945. If you were 10 in 1869, when you worked on the railroad, you would be 83 when put in the first camp. It’s possible but unlikely.

It’s almost certain someone in the camp had an ancestor who worked on the railroads.

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CommonSensei-_@reddit

And it’s almost certain that someone in the camp, or their ancestor(s) wore black pajamas.

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Eastern-Surprise-830@reddit

Who was in the pajamas, Walter?

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CommonSensei-_@reddit

Asian American Ancestors, please.

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Icy-Banana-3291@reddit

I didn’t complain about the loss of my legs. Some Chinaman took them from me in Korea!

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2wheelsThx@reddit

Chinese Camp was not an internment camp, it was a gold rush-era mining camp where Chinese immigrants settled after they were kicked-out of other mining camps in the area, so active roughly in the 1850s - 1870s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Camp,_California

If someone came to mine gold and ended-up living there for a while, it's possible they gave up mining at some point and got hired by the railroad.

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