Stockton,
CA 
About the Project
This site was funded by the City of Stockton in California.
It was developed and designed by Kristin Meyer, Annita Waghorn,
and Adrian Praetzellis, Anthropological Studies Center (ASC), Sonoma
State University, Rohnert Park, California. Visit the ASC’s
Web site at http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/
This
Web site is based on an archaeological excavation of the Stockton
city block bounded by Miner Avenue and Channel, Hunter, and El Dorado
streets that is now the site of the City Center Cinemas. The excavation
was conducted by the ASC on behalf of the City of Stockton in order
to comply with requirements of the California Environmental Quality
Act before the cinemas could be constructed.
The project involved historical research and archaeological excavations. Archaeologists found three deposits of intact archaeological materials. The primary deposit consisted of the remains of a laundry operated by Chinese immigrants from the 1890s to the 1930s. The project also provided information about the block’s early history, and about the filling in of Miner Channel, which once ran through the block to Mc Leod Lake, in ca. 1917.
You can find out more information from the project’s technical
report: Historic Archaeological Investigations of the City Center
Cinemas Block, Bounded by Miner Avenue and Hunter, El Dorado, and
Channel Streets, Stockton, California. This report is available
from the Stockton Public Library.