This morning we went up to Maryport Street to see the
Joss House being moved from it’s section back to the Chinese Camp.
The house was built in 1869, and it was a very central
part of the Chinese camp. It was used for meetings, it was a spiritual building
as it had a chapel. At the end of the gold rush, when there were only a few
miners left it was used to treat the terminally ill patients of the camp. There
was a fire at the camp, and some of the Joss house was burned, but they replaced
it, as it was such an important building on the camp site.
It was shifted to Maryport street in 1947. The Joss
house has been an historic building with Lawrence, and today was a very
important day in it’s history. We were lucky enough to be able to watch the
building being shifted off the site and leaving for its new, but old, home back
at the Chinese camp.
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