Daily. Cesium was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. It brought to stay your cable or satellite provider. For the next 45 minutes, an american tv exclusive. We go to chico, california to learn about history. For six years, we have traveled across the United States to learn more about Historic Sites and you can learn more on cspan. Org. It is hard to really grasp how important was to our States History from founding the city of chico to delivering the news of californias inception into the country. In october 1850 in San Francisco. His legacy and footprint can be seen through california. Here, this is the mansion where we are the home to 5. 2 acres of roughlyl 22,000 square feet and it is a mansion that was constructed from 1865 to 1868. The style of architecture that we see today is referred to as the villa. There is a number of potential explanations as to why this chosen this style of architecture. Being in a mediterranean climate, and being that the
Comcast Cable Partners worked with cspan cities tour staff when we travel to chico, california. Located 90 miles north of sacramento, its Agricultural Production plays a Major Economic role both locally and around the world. Learn more about chico all weekend here on American History tv. Ms. Smallhouse the chinese were here at a valuable time. Chico was really coming into its own starting in 1840 and onward. So, i really consider them sort of helping build the foundation for what chico is today. We have a really, really important role. So, we are standing inside of an altar of a chinese temple housed at the chico museum. They started settling here as early as 1840, part of a movement happening all across the United States. In china, they were looking for more opportunities. So, a lot of them came here. Their passage was paid for by, you know, other chinese merchants. And so, in coming here they had to work to pay back that expense. They primarily came here to mine for gold. Up, youthey
Having to explain that all the time as a kid, it was a lot. It just made me feel like it was different because nobody knew about me. Nobody knew what hmong was because there is no hmongland. I felt ashamed of being hmong because i didnt want to have to explain and do a History Lesson every time i told somebody i was hmong. When people would say your name sounds like chinese or hawaiian, i would just go along with that. Yeah, sure, i am. That way i didnt have to do the whole History Lesson. I think that goes to the same with our generation not knowing a lot of our history. And the background. That is something they feel is somewhat of a burden, having to tell somebody every time to the hmong people are. When we know so clearly our parents, my dad, my brothers are americans to fight the vietnam war. How come nobody knows about us . We helped americans. Our uncles and aunts aunts only people died during this war, how come nobody knows about us . Thats when you realize we are truly a secre
Having to explain that all the time as a kid, it was a lot. It just made me feel like it was different because nobody knew about me. Nobody knew what hmong was because there is no hmongland. I felt ashamed of being hmong because i didnt want to have to explain and do a History Lesson every time i told somebody i was hmong. When people would say your name sounds like chinese or hawaiian, i would just go along with that. Yeah, sure, i am. That way i didnt have to do the whole History Lesson. I think that goes to the same with our generation not knowing a lot of our history. And the background. That is something they feel is somewhat of a burden, having to tell somebody every time to the hmong people are. When we know so clearly our parents, my dad, my brothers are americans to fight the vietnam war. How come nobody knows about us . We helped americans. Our uncles and aunts aunts only people died during this war, how come nobody knows about us . Thats when you realize we are truly a secre
Sort of helping to build the foundation of what chico is today. Standing in front of an altar of a chinese temple housed here at chico museum. They started here as early as 1840. This was part of a movement happening across the United States. They were looking for more opportunities and a lot of them came here. For byassage was paid other chinese merchants and in coming here, they had to work to pay back that expense. The working in andculture and factories working in major houses and whens and the transcontinental railroad. Onward, thered were primarily male workers and there was a lot of friction between them and a lot of other ethnic groups. They were looking to settle in their own communities. They were seen as a competition because they were willing to work for lower wages and seen as moralitydown american because they had settled in groups where there was and theyion, opium use to thensidered a threat racial composition in america. This would iraq into violence and in chico, ther