Historical Wintersburg is a historic site that represents more than a century of Japanese immigration to the United States. The property consists of six structures that still exist in a 4.5 acre (1.8 acre) parcel in Huntington Beach, Orange County, California. The C.M. Furuta Gold Fish Farm and the Wintersburg Japan Mission are nationally recognized by historians as a pre-1913 rare pre-1913 Japanese precursor property with intact physical features that convey the development of American American history. This property is recorded as being eligible for a National Register of Historic Places in the City of Huntington Beach General Plan in 2014.
Historic Wintersburg is representative of Orange County's early farming history and history of immigration and civil liberties on the West Coast. Three generations of Japanese American experience are represented: Issei immigration at the end of the 19th century, exceptions and Alien Land Law of the early 20th century, the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the return to California from World War II War II in 1945.
The modern history of this property dates from the purchase of land by Japanese immigrant pioneers in 1908, as part of the former ownership of Rancho Las Bolsas land. His pre-history includes centuries of occupation by Tongva, a native of California. Efforts to save and preserve Wintersburg History began a few years after the property was sold in 2004, when news became public that the new owners are planning re-zoning for commercial/industrial use of demolition of all historic and cultural resources. Preservationists have worked with the current property owner for permission to stabilize the structure to prevent dismantling by negligence. The purpose of historic preservation is to create a permanent heritage site using public parks.
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National Treasure
National Trust for the Preservation of Historic, Washington, DC, named Historic Wintersburg as Treasure National in October 2015, commented, "This place respecting the experience of Japan-America and the impact of longer than people who are the real history largely erased by the policy of anti-immigrant and detention during the 20th century. "The National Trust states that Historic Wintersburg is" among the only surviving Japanese-American property acquired before California passed the anti-immigrant land law in 1913 and 1920. Subsequently, the Wintersburg community was imprisoned during World War II, this site is an icon of our nation's civil rights history and a reminder of the struggle for social justice that many immigrant communities continue to face today. "
One of the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in America
Historic Wintersburg was named one of the 11 Most Threatened Historic Sites in America on June 24, 2014, by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This is considered significant as a Japanese property acquired before the Webb-Haney Act, or the California Land Alien Law of 1913, which prohibits Japanese-born citizens from owning property. Historic Wintersburg is threatened because current landowners are reshaping property in 2013 from settlement to commercial/industrial use, and propose plans to destroy all six historic buildings at the site. Structures ranging in age from 70 to 105, marking Japan's West Japan settlement history as well as its return to California after World War II forced evacuation and confinement in detention and relocation centers.
The Wintersburg Historic Site includes six extant structures: 1910 Japanese Presbyterian Mission, 1910 Manse (priest), 1934 Great Depression of Presbyterian Church of Japan, 1912 Furuta bungalow, Furuta granary (1908-1912), and 1947 post-World War II Furuta ranch house. Historic Wintersburg is part of the 19th century Wintersburg Village in northern Orange County, which was annexed to Huntington Beach in 1957.
The ownership of the Historic Wintersburg property preceded California's Alien Land Law in 1913 and 1920 - state legislation prohibiting those who did not qualify for citizenship, especially Japanese immigrants, from property ownership. This property, originally covering five hectares, was purchased by Reverend Hisakichi Terasawa and Charles Mitsuji Furuta in 1908. In 1912, the building was handed over by Reverend Terasawa to Charles Mitsuji Furuta as a whole, with the understanding that a small, northwestern part of the land would be home. Presbyterian Japan Mission.
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West American American Settlement America
The Wintersburg Historical Property is representative of the era of the arrival of Japanese pioneers and West American settlements, as well as the pursuit of citizenship and civil liberties by early twentieth-century Japanese immigrants. Historic Wintersburg is home to both C.M. Furuta Gold Fish Farm and Japanese Presbyterian Mission Wintersburg , Japan's oldest worship house of any denomination in Orange County and in most of California.
Historic Wintersburg was listed in 1983 as potentially eligible for a National Register of Historic Places during a survey of the cultural resources of the road. The Historic Wintersburg property was designated as a local historic landmark in 1986 by the City of Huntington Beach and recorded as in the City General Plan. The Historic Property of Wintersburg has recently been deemed potentially eligible for a National Register of Historic Places in a historic resource survey prepared for the City of Huntington Beach, pending final approval by the city council by 2015. There is currently an attempt to nominate for listing National Historic Site. This property is checked by a representative of the US National Park Service in June 2013, and is considered potentially eligible for a National Register of Historic Places based on Criterion A, the American Settlement of Japan in the Western States.
Famous people
Wintersburg's historical history includes: James Kanno, the first American mayor of Japan; Stephen Tamura, Japan's first Japanese lawyer in Orange County and the first court of the United States judiciary in Japan; the Masuda family, specifically mentioned by President Ronald Reagan when he signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988; Clarence Nishizu, the first person to be appointed by a poll of the Prime Minister of the United States of Orange County and an invited guest with President Reagan at the signing of the Civil Liberties Act; Pastor Joseph Inazawa and Kate Alice Goodman, Mission Clergy made international headlines with interracial marriages in 1910; Rev. Sohei Kowta, the unifier of a religious organization at the Colorado River Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona; Charles Mitsuji Furuta, the first Japanese immigrant to be baptized as a Christian in Orange County, founder of the Wintersburg mission, and president of the Smeltzer Japan Association; Yasumatsu Miyawaki, owner of the first Japanese market in Main Street Huntington Beach, California, in 1911; 1912 Japanese pilot Koha Takeishi; and a Medal of Honor World War II nomination.
Japanese mission Wintersburg
The Wintersburg Japanese Mission was originally founded as a non-denominational, multi-faith and multi-ethnic endeavor by Christian and Buddhist supporters, the first meeting in a loan room in Wintersburg Village prior to property acquisition in 1909. The assisting pastor established in 1904 represented the Episcopalian denomination , Methodist and Presbyterian. The original donation books show contributions to the Mission and Manse buildings (ministers) of 1910, both from the American community of Japanese and European descent (referred to as "the American Pioneer community") from around Orange County. A 1930 history written by Missionary priest, Reverend Kenji Kikuchi, of the official adoption of Mission as a Church with the Presbyterian US states that the Japanese Mission of Wintersburg was known at the time as "the oldest church in Japan in Southern California".
The Church is one of fourteen missions established with the help of Dr. Ernest Adolphus Sturge, who was commissioned to lead the efforts of the Japanese Mission by the Presbyterian Church of the United States.
The initial mission effort was a multi-cultural and multi-faith effort, with involvement by Methodists, Buddhists and Presbyterians. Church history depicts pastors walking into celery fields to meet and talk with Japanese immigrants in 1902. Originally meeting in a barn or cottage borrowed in Wintersburg Village, Mission was established in 1904, built its first building in 1910, and was officially recognized as a the church was authorized by the United States Presbyterian Church in 1930. The Church exists today as the Church of Wintersburg in Santa Ana, California, and remains the majority Japanese congregation of America.
By 2014, the Church is currently separated from the US Presbyterian Church, returning to its roots as a non-denominational Christian church. The Church issued an official apology by Presbytery of Los Ranchos in 2014 for non-action over the previous seven decades during World War II. The apology explains that "while members of the Japan-America trial are relocated, neither national Presbyterian denominations nor regional presbyters take positions on behalf of their members, taking the most offhand positions." The Los Ranchos presbyter decides that the Church can defend their properties and assets, and does not need to comply with the reimbursement requirements for leaving the denomination. The official apology acknowledges, "although we can not relieve the pain that has been experienced as a result of the neglect of our ancestors, we would like to extend our deepest appeal to the generations of the Wintersburg Presbyterian Church who continue to be affected by the neglect of your brothers and sisters... in the absence of advocacy, neglect of attention and failure of parent church leadership that we usually claim, people from your presbyter humbly beg for forgiveness of your trial. "
Explore Japanese Mission
Historic Wintersburg is considered part of the unknown Japanese Trail Mission in California, a new term used by Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach , author Mary Adams Urashima, to bring attention to migration and residential paths of Japan's pioneering California community. In 1885, the first Japanese mission in California - which took place six decades after the last Spanish mission in 1823 - marked the start of efforts by Japanese pioneers to build communities as they assimilate into American life. While twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions are stationed about 30 miles apart - a day or two on horseback - Japanese missions are springing up in communities where immigrants set themselves up to work. In Orange County, work in the early 1900s was available in celery, sugar beets, and chili fields around Wintersburg Village and near Smeltzer (both now part of Huntington Beach).
The Japanese mission along the West Coast is assisted through the work of Ernest Adolphus Sturge, MD, Missionary of Presbyterian Board for Japan in California with Presbyterian Church USA Sturge, who has traveled extensively throughout Asia before his role with Presbyterian Church, presented the Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor Japan for his work with Japanese immigrants in America. Sturge was appointed by the National Presbyterian Church in 1886 to serve as a missionary for the Presbyterian Church in California and named the General Superintendent of the Presbyterian Church of Japan, from 1886 to 1934. Sturge and his wife "teach a cheerful Japanese class of students who want to learn English." The couple is recognized as the first person to start a mission effort in the Japanese immigrant community in America.
In 1903, Dr.'s colleagues Sturge published a book in honor of the fifteenth anniversary of his mission, The Spirit of Japan, listed at the Library of Congress on February 11, 1904, by his governor, Reverend Joseph Kenichi Inazawa, who later served as pastor of the Wintersburg Mission. There is an entry in the book from Kisaburo Uyeno, His Imperial Japanese Consul in San Francisco, which noted in 1903 that Sturge had lived and worked with Japan in America for twenty years. Presbyterian Japan Presbyterian Mission is the fifth mission established with the help of Dr. Sturge and his colleagues. Previous missions include San Francisco, Salinas, Watsonville and Los Angeles, California. Dr. Sturge was present at the dedication of the Japanese Presbyterian Mission of Wintersburg in 1910, recorded in a Mission program and group photograph taken on his devotion.
Japanese language Japanese Language School Supported by Wintersburg Mission
The Japanese Presbyterian Mission Wintersburg supports four Japanese Language Schools, or gakuens, in Orange County: Garden Grove, Talbert (now Valley of the Fountain), Costa Mesa and Laguna Beach, documented by original mission documents and oral histories of the congregation. The Japanese Language School serves as a multi-purpose community center built by local residents, supported by Christians and Buddhists, and provides language classes, religious services, and also serves as a meeting place for local farmers.
The existing Japanese Language School building is preserved in the historic district of Crystal Cove State Park. During World War II, when Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from the West Coast per Executive Order 9066 to parenting centers, the Japanese Language School of Laguna Beach was changed by the US military to use. Historical time record is Crystal Cove State Park, "The goal is for coastal defense crews to observe and supplement data for battery guns to shoot into targets." After the war, Japanese American farmers who rented farmland on Irvine Farms were unable to reclaim their farms and homes on the San Joaquin Hills. The Building of the Japanese Language School The current Laguna Beach is Cottage # 34 and serves as the cultural center of Crystal Cove State Park.
Wintersburg Mission Priest
The first official priest at the opening of the Mission building in 1910 was Rev. Joseph Kenichi Inzawa, along with his wife, Kate Alice Goodman. They were also the first inhabitants of manse in 1910. Kenji Kikuchi was one of the longest serving priests, 1926-1934, and provided one of the detailed oral histories conducted in 1980 by an oral history program with California State University Fullerton.
Sohei Kowta served as pastor from 1938 to 1942. He was interrogated by F.B.I. after the attack on Pearl Harbor, with his neighbor, Charles Mitsuji Furuta. Pastor Kowta is recognized as a unifying force in the 1945 Release Authorization War Release Report for the Community Section of the Colorado River Relocation Center in Poston, Arizona. The report notes, "The maintenance of a unified church is made possible by a very wise moderator, Rev. Sohei Kowta, of the Presbyterian Church, and the fact that relationships with outside denominations are centered on a commission representing interested churches... Contacts with outside denominations very important for the Christian group at the center, these groups who have taken the most vocal stance on the evacuation issue and who represent the central citizens only evidence in 1942 that they are not completely rejected by America.
C.M. Furuta Gold Fish Farm at Wintersburg Village
Charles Mitsuji Furuta went to America in 1900. Aiming to meet his older brother, Soichi, in Hawaii, Furuta was banned down because of the Black Wague plague. He went on to Tacoma, Washington. After working there for several years, he went to the growing Wintersburg Village of Orange County in Southern California and found work on the celery field. One of the first people Furuta met was Reverend Hisakichi Terasawa, an Episcopal priest who had been registered by Drs. Ernest Adolphus Sturge and Reverend Joseph Inazawa to help establish the Japanese mission in Orange County.
Reverend Terasawa began meeting Japanese workers in the Wintersburg farms in 1902. At the suggestion of Reverend Terasawa, Furuta saved money to buy land. Together they bought in 1908 a five-acre package known today as Historic Wintersburg.
In 1912, Reverend Terasawa surrendered the five-hectare property entirely to Furuta, who set aside the northwest corner for the Japanese mission-building committee. Furuta returned to Japan in 1912 to meet and marry Yukiko Yajima, and return with him to America. Upon their return, Furuta contracted with a Caucasian builder to build a four-room bungalow on his farm. The final touch was made at home in March 1913-documented in a photo of Yukiko Furuta standing in the months ahead of the terrace before the passage of California's Alien Land Law of 1913 in May of that year.
Part of the Alien Land Law means that Charles Furuta is one of the rare Japanese immigrant landowners in California. Furuta worked for local Caucasian farmers (especially at Cole Ranch in Wintersburg Village), tried an agricultural cooperative with other Japanese immigrant pioneers, and cultivated his own land.
In 1917, he established the first goldfish pond on his property. In the 1920s, the goldfish pond covered most of Furuta's farm, with a variety of common and exotic fish species. Two other goldfish farms were established in Wintersburg Village during the same time period, one by Furuta's brother-in-law, Henry Kiyomi Akiyama and one by Tsurumatsu "T.M." Asari. The Furutas, Akiyamas and Asaris continued to farm the carp until it was forcibly removed from California after the authorization of Executive Order 9066 on 19 February 1942, after December 7, 1941, a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
World War II Forced displacement and confinement
The event after Pearl Harbor's attack: Charles Furuta, owner of Furuta Gold Fish Farm, and Rev. Sohei Kowta of the Japanese Church of Wintersburg were interrogated at the Wintersburg Historic property by F.B.I. follow Pearl Harbor. Charles was interrogated in the basking room at Furuta bungalow in 1912. Reverend Kowta was interrogated at the Wintersburg Japanese Church Office in 1934. Reverend Kowta was allowed to stay with his family and trial until the time when all the Japanese would be moved from California.
Furuta was first imprisoned at the Tuna Canyon Detention Station, a former Civil Corps Conservation camp in Los Angeles County, California. In March 2016, there were a total of six people associated with the Wintersburg Historical that have been documented through the efforts of the Nungan Canyon Tuna Prisonership Coalition to have been limited to Tuna Canyon, including an elder from the Wintersburg Mission.
On 19 February 1942, the Executive Order of 9066 established a military exclusion zone and ordered the forcible transfer of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. By May 1942, all Japanese Americans had been moved from Orange County, California. In Huntington Beach, most are directed to gather at the Pacific Electric Railway station near the Huntington Beach pier, while others are directed to the Japanese Language School at Garden Grove, before being transported to the Colorado River Relocation Center in Poston, Arizona (Poston).
Wintersburg Mission: Missions follow their congregations and communities into confinement, safeguard the congregation's belongings and provide comfort within the relocation camp. The mission clergy help those facing the prospect of leaving their home for confinement. The pastor continued to provide support during the confinement and helped those who returned to Southern California after World War II, providing shelter and guidance.
In 1945, after the departure of the Poston, Rev. Wintersburg Kowta Church Pastor was sent to Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, to help at the Los Angeles Japanese Union Church. During the years of World War II, Pilgrim House for African-American migrant communities built space in the Building of the Union Church of Japan and Little Tokyo known as Bronzeville. The Building of the Union Church of Japan is also used to store American-owned Japanese goods in a cage. National Park Service records Reverend Kowta's efforts to help Japanese Americans return from confinement at Five Views: An Ethnic Historical Site Survey for California: "Rev. Sohei Kowta... recognizes the need to build a center to help Americans Japan who returned from the concentration camps, together with the Presbytery and the American Friends Service Committee, he set up a residential center... known as Evergreen Hostel, and Rev. Kowta undertook religious services for members of Union Church and other citizens. "
Furuta Ranch: Charles Furuta - identified as the land owner and president of the Japan Association - was first taken by F.B.I. to the Tuna Canyon Detention Station in Los Angeles County (since being destroyed). He was then transferred to the enemy alien camp of the Justice Department in Lordsburg, New Mexico, which began receiving prisoners from California in June, 1942. During his time at Lordsburg there was an incident called Lordsburg Murder. At that time, Furuta was 61 years old and has lived in the United States for 42 years.
On May 16, 1942, Yukiko Furuta and Furuta's children (Raymond and his wife, Martha, Toshiko, Nobuko, Kazuko, Etsuko and Grace Emiko) were transferred from Wintersburg Village to Poston. The Furuta was separated for a year before Charles Furuta was allowed to join his family at Poston. Locked down for three years, the Furutas were released to return to their home in Wintersburg Village in 1945.
After the Furuta family returned to their Wintersburg Village farm, they found a goldfish pond covered with mud and farmland in disrepair. The Furuta spent the next few years restoring a pond to plant water lilies and soil to plant sweet pea flowers. Furuta's flower estates became the largest provider of water lily trimmed in the United States during the last half of the 20th century, per line of living family.
Wintersburg Historical Preservation
2004: After nearly a century of ownership, the Furuta family no longer farms and makes the decision to sell the property. It was purchased in 2004 by Rainbow Environmental Services, a waste disposal company with a nearby waste transfer station. Rainbow, in turn, was purchased in October 2014 by the Republic Service.
2011: Property is proposed to rezonize for commercial and industrial use by the owner of the Rainbow Environment, along with proposals for dismantling all historic structures.
2012: In July 2012, the Huntington Beach City Council created the Historic Wintersburg Preservation Task Force.
2013: In November 2013, the City of Huntington Beach City Council certified an Environmental Impact Statement that included measures to rezone property for industrial and commercial use, along with demolition of all six historic structures. Following this action, the Ocean View School District acting on behalf of the Oak View Elementary School adjacent to Historic Wintersburg filed two separate suits, one against City of Huntington Beach on CEQA action and the second against Rainbow Environmental regarding their waste diversion operations. In November 2013, conservation efforts have focused on purchasing properties, finding compromise preservation plans, or moving buildings before the destruction.
2014: In June 2014, Historic Wintersburg was included in the National Trust for Historic Preservation's annual list of 11 Most Threatened Historic Sites of America, highlighting the dangers of American historical property requiring national assistance to achieve conservation goals. Urashima is recognized as a "Community Hero" by the American Pacific Citizens League of America in September 2014.
2015: In February 2015, the story of the Historic Furuta family of Wintersburg was featured in an early screening of our public television series, our American Family , at the National Museum of American Japan in Los Angeles, California. Our American family: The Furutas airs nationwide on public television in spring 2015.
On June 2, 2015, Orange County High Court Judge Gail Andler ordered the City of Huntington Beach to cancel in 45 days of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Act 2013 --- Environmental Impact Report (EIR) --- which reorganized the Wintersburg Property historic for commercial/industrial and including approval for demolition. This action in support of the Ocean View School District complaint follows the Huntington Beach City Council meeting of 1 June 2015 in which the Council voted to cancel the EIR and Override Consideration Statements (justification for dismantling).
On 3-4 June 2015, the Wintersburg Historical Preservation Task Force lists the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Urban Land Institute (ULI) for the Technical Assistance Panel (TAP) which will generate findings and recommendations on alternatives to this historic property. sustainability. Reports on alternative potential for property preservation and reuse released by ULI in September 2015.
In October 2015, the National Trust for Historic Preservation was named Historic Wintersburg, the National Treasure, one of less than 60 in the United States at the time, and one of two National Treasures representing the history of American Japan.
2016: May 25, 2016, Management of the Republicans says it will not destroy the historic structure at Historic Wintersburg and will work with the Historic Wintersburg Conservation Task Force and stakeholders on a "mutually beneficial plan".
In August and September 2016, cultural monitoring for potential artifacts was made during the street work on the west side of the property along Nichols Lane in the original pioneer fence area, in coordination with the public works department of Huntington Beach City. Collection of artifacts in this area produces bottle findings from different time periods, farm equipment, kitchen utensils, and large snail shells from the era of goldfish farms.
On September 14, 2016, professional inspections and consultations were conducted by historic preservation architects, to determine the specific stabilization requirements of each of the six structures at the Wintersburg Historic property and prepare for building fumigation.
2017: 75th Anniversary of the Years: 19 February 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of the 9066 Executive Order signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which mandates forcible transfer and detention of Japanese Americans on the West Coast where 75 percent are American-born citizens. This action led to the abolition and detention of all Japanese Americans from Orange County, California, including everyone associated with Historic Wintersburg.
19 February 2017 To commemorate Executive Order 9066, Army uniform Kazuo Masuda - member of "Go For Broke" 442 and, together with his family, congregation of the Japanese Mission of Wintersburg - was shown at an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington DC , Smithsonian Marks 75th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066.
At the end of May 2017, the Republic Service was requested by the Trust for Public Land to obtain a property appraisal to establish the current market value to move forward with discussions on the purchase of properties for historic preservation.
On July 17, 2017, the Trust for Public Land and the historic Wintersburg Preservation Task Force were awarded to the Huntington Beach City Council presentations at their television conference on the status of historical conservation efforts and negotiations to purchase property for historic and public preservation. destination park.
19 August - 30 September 2017, Wintersburg Historical is part of a joint exhibition with the Smithsonian Institution at the Orange County Heritage Museum, Tim Hometown: How Sports Shapes America.
On August 30, 2017, a request was made from the Republic Service to allow the California State University Long Beach (CSULB) archeology department to conduct an archaeological survey of agriculture and mission property, at no cost to the Republic. Preservationists repeat their concerns about the Republic Service regarding brush removal and weed reduction, to reduce the risk of fire.
On September 11, 2017, the Republican Service notified the conservation group that they rejected the initial site run by CSULB archaeologists and will resume discussions after completing some construction deadlines at their waste transfer station.
On September 21, 2017, Preserve Orange County named Historic Wintersburg one of the "most threatened" historic properties in Orange County, California.
2018 On January 26, 2018, Republic Services, Inc., a waste management company owned by the National Treasure Historic Wintersburg property, stated that it plans to sell Wintersburg's Historic property to Public Storage for its own storage development.
References
Further reading
Ursima, Mary F. Adams (2014). Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach . Charleston, SC: History Press. ISBN: 978-1-62619-311-6. Ã,
External links
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Historic Wintersburg Preservation Task Force
- Wintersburg Historical blog
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