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{{Short description|Historic museum in Oregon, USA}}
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{{Infobox park
| name = Kam Wah Chung Heritage Site<BR>金華昌藥店歷史地點
| photo = Kam Wah Chung Museum (Grant County, Oregon scenic images) (graDA0089).jpg
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| photo_caption = Kam Wah Chung building
| map = Oregon#USA
| map_width = 220
| type = Public, state
| location = [[Grant County, Oregon|Grant County]], [[Oregon]]
| nearest_city = [[John Day, Oregon|John Day]] 
| coords = {{coord|44.418688|N|118.956922|W|region:US-OR_source:gnis|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| area = {{convert|0.42|acre|ha|lk=on}}<ref name="Bannan">{{cite book|last=Bannan|first=Jan|title=Oregon State Parks: A Complete Recreation Guide|edition=2nd|publisher=The Mountaineers Books|year=2002|location=Seattle|pages=219&ndash;20|isbn=0-89886-794-0}}</ref>
| created = 
| operator = [[Oregon Parks and Recreation Department]]
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| status = 
| open = 
| embedded = {{Infobox NRHP
  | embed = yes
  | name = Kam Wah Chung Company Building
  | nrhp_type = nhl
  | built = 1866
  | designated_nrhp_type = September 20, 2005<ref name="nhlsum">{{cite web |url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-1410718254&ResourceType=Building |title=Kam Wah Chung Company Building |format=Statement of Significance |publisher=[[National Historic Landmarks|National Historic Landmarks Program]], National Park Service |access-date=July 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606080055/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-1410718254&ResourceType=Building |archive-date=June 6, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
  | added = March 20, 1973
  | refnum = 73001575
  }}
}}

{{Infobox Chinese
|title             = Kam Wah Chung Heritage Site
|c                 = 金華昌藥店歷史地點
|j                 = gam1 waa4 coeng1 joek6 dim3 lik6 si2 dei6 dim2
|p                 = Jīnhuáchāng yàodiàn lìshǐ dìdiǎn
|l                 = Kam Wah Chung Pharmacy Historic Site
}}

The '''Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum''', also known as '''Kam Wah Chung Company Building''', is a state park and a [[National Historic Landmark]] that preserves early Chinese culture in [[John Day, Oregon|John Day]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Oregon]].<ref name="nhlsum"/>  Built in the 1865 by George Hazeltine as a supply depot or stagecoach stop along the Dalles-Canyon City wagon road.,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oregonstateparks.org/index.cfm?do=parkPage.dsp_parkPage&parkId=5 |title= Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site|author=<!--Not stated--> |website=oregonstateparks.org |publisher=Oregon Parks and Recreation Department |access-date=July 29, 2017 }}</ref> it is the best-preserved example of a Chinese herbal apothecary and mercantile establishment dating to the post-[[American Civil War|Civil War]] period of growth in the [[Western United States]].<ref name="nrhpinv2"/>

==History==
The Kam Wah Chung ({{zh|t=金華昌|j=gam1 waa4 coeng1}})<ref name="chinatimes2015">{{cite web | url=https://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20151108001553-260117 | title=多城蜜語－金華昌博物館 - 《旺來報》 }}</ref> Company Building was built along a wagon road later known as [[The Dalles Military Road]], possibly as a trading post serving [[placer mining]] operations on Canyon Creek.  By 1878, it was under lease to the Kam Wah Chung Company, which was purchased in 1887 by the partnership of [[Ing Hay]] (known also as "Doc Hay") ({{zh|t=伍于念|j=ng5 jyu1 nim6}})<ref name="chinatimes2015"/><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hgzz.net/baike/101772.html | title=HGZZ.net }}</ref> and [[Lung On (Liang Guanying)|Lung On]] ({{zh|t=梁光榮|j=loeng4 gwong1 wing4}}),<ref name="chinatimes2015"/> Chinese immigrants from [[Guangdong|Canton]].<ref name="nrhpinv2"/>

The building remained abandoned after Ing Hay died in 1952.  He asked that the building be deeded to the city of John Day with the provision it be turned into a museum.  His wish, and the ownership of the building, were forgotten until 1967.  While surveying for a new park the city discovered its ownership of the building and began to restore it as it was in the 1940s.  The city also has custody of many of the company's records and personal documents relating to the proprietors.<ref name="nrhpinv2"/>

Currently{{when|date=January 2018}} the Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum contains one of the most extensive collections of materials from the century-long influx of Chinese immigrants in the American West.  It was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1973 and designated a National Historic Landmark by the Secretary of the Interior in 2005.<ref name="nhlsum"/><ref name="nrhpinv2">{{citation |last1 = Donovan |first1= Sally |last2 = Griffith |first2 = Sarah |date = September 2005 |title=National Historic Landmark Nomination: Kam Wah Chung Company Building |publisher=National Historic Landmarks Program, National Park Service |url={{NHLS url|id=73001575}} |access-date=July 1, 2011 |format = PDF}}.</ref>

The museum received particular attention from Oregon First Lady [[Mary Oberst]], wife of Governor [[Ted Kulongoski]], who helped raise $1.5 million in private funds to renovate the building into a [[state park]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Britton |first=Lisa |date=March 11, 2005 |title=Kam Wah Chung & Co. |url=https://www.bakercityherald.com/localnews/4121178-151/kam-wah-chung-andamp-co |work=[[Baker City Herald]] |access-date=June 18, 2018}}</ref> The renovation began in November 2006 and was re-opened in August 2007. The renovated museum's grand re-opening was celebrated on May 3, 2008.<ref>{{cite news |last=Merriman |first=Ed |date=April 28, 2008 |title=Kam Wah Chung museum re-opening |url=https://www.bakercityherald.com/localnews/4130397-151/kam-wah-chung-museum-re-opening |work=Baker City Herald |access-date=June 18, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Carpenter |first=Angel |date=June 12, 2018 |title=Celebration dinner marks 140 years of Kam Wah Chung |url=http://www.bluemountaineagle.com/Local_News/20180612/celebration-dinner-marks-140-years-of-kam-wah-chung |work=[[Blue Mountain Eagle (newspaper)|Blue Mountain Eagle]] |location=John Day, Oregon |access-date=June 18, 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Oregon state parks]]
* [[List of National Historic Landmarks in Oregon]]
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Grant County, Oregon]]

==References==
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{{refbegin}}
* {{cite book |first=Jeffrey |last=Barlow |author2=Christine Richardson |title=China Doctor of John Day |place=Portland, Oregon |publisher=Binford & Mort |year=1979 |isbn=0-8323-0346-1 }}
* {{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/kam_wah_chung/ |title=Kam Wah Chung |encyclopedia=[[The Oregon Encyclopedia]] |publisher=Portland State University |access-date=July 1, 2011}}
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==External links==
* {{cite web |url=http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_8.php |title=Kam Wah Chung Heritage Site |publisher=Oregon Parks and Recreation Department |access-date=July 1, 2011}}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.oregonstateparksfoundation.org/kam-wah-chung-co-museum/ |title=Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum |publisher=Oregon State Parks Foundation |access-date=July 29, 2017}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/feature/asia/2005/kam.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070815221122/http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/feature/asia/2005/kam.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 15, 2007 |title=Kam Wah Chung Company building |work=Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=July 1, 2011}}
* [http://www.opb.org/television/programs/oregonexperience/segment/kam-wah-chung/ Kam Wah Chung] Documentary produced by ''[[Oregon Public Broadcasting]]''

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[[Category:Chinese-American museums]]
[[Category:Chinese-American culture in Oregon]]
[[Category:Museums in Grant County, Oregon]]
[[Category:State parks of Oregon]]
[[Category:Ethnic museums in Oregon]]
[[Category:Parks in Grant County, Oregon]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Grant County, Oregon]]
[[Category:John Day, Oregon]]