The Columbia Gorge Discovery will be opening a new exhibit on January 28, 2017.
The new exhibit "A Community Forgotten: Uncovering The History Of The Dalles Chinatown" will start off with a dinner and lecture by Priscilla Wegars, PhD, on “Chinese Tunnels: Myth or Reality?” Wegars is an Affiliate Assistant Professor and Volunteer Curator of the Asian American Comparative Collection (AACC) at the University of Idaho. For more information, ticket and reservations for this event please log on to the centers website.
https://www.gorgediscovery.org/event/chinese-history/
For more information on The Dalles historical Chinese communites here are some suggested websites:
http://restoreoregon.org/the-dalles-chinatown/
https://www.facebook.com/thedalleschinatown/
Also, the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture has a historical booket that can be downloaded in PDF form. This historical overview is about the Chinese community above Mill Creek
around 1900. " A Sense Of Place" can be downloaded here:
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev3_036427.pdf