Chinese Massacre Cove
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Chinese Massacre Cove is an area along the Snake River in Wallowa County, Oregon, United States. It is located in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest and the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, upriver from the Snake's confluence with the Imnaha River.[1]
In 1887 in Oregon's Hells Canyon on the Snake River a gang of at least four white men robbed, murdered and mutilated 31 Chinese men.[2] Three people were brought to trial but none was ever convicted.[3] The area was named Chinese Massacre Cove on October 12, 2005.[4]
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[edit] References
- ^ Nokes, R. Gregory. "A Most Daring Outrage": Murders at Chinese Massacre Cove, 1887 Oregon Historical Quarterly, Fall 2006. Vol. 107, no. 3. Retrieved 20 March 2007.
- ^ Next stop Qochyax Island, Associated Press, 12 October 2005. Retrieved 12 March 2007.
- ^ "Lesson Fifteen: Industrialization, Class, and Race: Chinese and the Anti-Chinese Movement in the Late 19th-Century Northwest," History of Washington State & the Pacific Northwest, Center for Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington. Retrieved 12 March 2007.
- ^ Committee meeting minutes - October, 12, 2005, (PDF), U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Domestic Names Committee, U.S. Geological Survey, October 12, 2005. Retrieved 12 March 2007.
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- Chinese Massacre Cove is at coordinates Coordinates:
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