Images of America: Chinese in Tehama County

08/06/2026

Free webinar August 8th on Images of America: Chinese in Tehama County: https://www.chcp.org/event-6769381

Join the Chinese Family History Group (CFHG) for a webinar on "Images of America: Chinese in Tehama County" with Jessica Chew.

🗓 Saturday, August 8, 2026
🕙 10:00 AM–12:00 PM (Pacific)
💻 Live on Zoom

During the California Gold Rush, Red Bluff emerged as one of Northern California's most important transportation hubs. Called the “head of navigation” on the Sacramento River, travelers, merchants, miners, loggers, and agricultural workers journeyed here and continued north in California, seeking their fortunes.

Chinese immigrants established a thriving Chinatown that served as a center of economic development providing lodging for seasonal workers, employment opportunities, banking, and correspondence services that linked laborers to their families in China.

Jessica will share insights from her research into her family history, uncovering historical records, newspaper archives, family photographs and recording oral history interviews.

She will describe how forgotten family stories were pieced together to illustrate the history of Red Bluff’s Chinatown, and demonstrate how genealogy research can help bring forgotten communities back to life, preserve stories before they are lost, and reconnect families with a shared heritage spanning more than 150 years.

🔗 Register at: https://www.chcp.org/event-6769381

07/21/2026

📚 You’re Invited! Discover the Hidden History of Red Bluff’s Chinatown

Join me for a special webinar hosted by the Chinese Family History Group as I share the remarkable stories behind Images of America: Chinese in Tehama County. Together we’ll explore how family photographs, oral histories, immigration records, and forgotten newspaper archives helped bring a lost Chinatown—and the families who built it—back to life.

From the California Gold Rush to six generations of my own family’s history, this presentation is about more than genealogy—it’s about preserving community, reconnecting descendants, and ensuring these stories are never forgotten.

🗓 Saturday, August 8, 2026
🕙 10:00 AM–12:00 PM (Pacific)
💻 Live on Zoom

🔗 Register here: https://www.chinesefamilyhistory.org/eventseeeac9a5

Buy our book: https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/chinese-in-tehama-county-9781467161442

Whether you’re interested in Chinese American history, genealogy, the Gold Rush, or preserving your family’s legacy, I hope you’ll join us.

Please share with family, friends, and anyone who loves discovering the stories that history almost forgot.

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07/09/2026

After 118 years, Red Bluff’s dragon returned to celebrate America’s birthday at the Fourth of July parade in Los Molinos.

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07/07/2026

07/06/2026

Descendants of Red Bluff’s Historic Chinatown revive a 1908 tradition, bringing the Chinese dragon back to Tehama County's Fourth of July parade.

07/05/2026

Bringing our pages to life ~118 years later

07/01/2026

Celebrate Independence Day and America’s 250th birthday at the annual Los Molinos 4th of July Parade, featuring a special appearance by Red Bluff Historic Chinatown’s dragon for the first time […]

06/29/2026

While researching our book, Images of America: Chinese in Tehama County, we uncovered newspaper accounts documenting that members of Red Bluff’s Chinatown proudly marched with the legendary Moo Lung Dragon in the town’s Fourth of July parade in 1908.