The site where Chinese laborers were interred, their graves later forgotten, gets a memorial
Transit agency builds a memorial at Evergreen Cemetery and will rebury remains that were excavated during Gold Line Eastside Extension.
The Chinese graves in Boyle Heights were discovered five years ago, during construction of the Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension. The early Chinese immigrants who helped build California were forbidden to marry or own property. They were barred from Evergreen Cemetery, the oldest secular burial ground still operating in Los Angeles.
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