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For about a century, very small groups of Chinese or solitary individuals exploited maritime resources on the central California coast. The locations were isolated, depending on the preferred habitat of the particular natural resource being sought and the optimum economic distance from the nearest competitor. The seaweed-gathering enterprise of Wong How persisted virtually unchanged until 1975, and...
Cambria is a small town on the central California coast (Fig. 12.1). Originally part of the property of Mission San Miguel, the lands became available for private ownership through the land-grant system after the Missions were secularized in 1834. Gradually, the first grantees lost, subdivided, or sold their claims, and by the mid-1860s, land speculation was rampant. By 1880, Cambria, then known as...
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