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PHOTOS: Florin Grammar School, courtesy of California State University, Sacramento; Florin Fish Market, courtesy of Bancroft Library, Readers at Tanforan Library.
Links to more information about documenting and
preservation in your community
PUBLIC AGENCIES
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
Federal Agency that promotes historic preservation.
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
National Park Service Cultural Programs
A wealth of useful information, including sections on preservation, the National Register, heritage documentation programs, and the on-line publication "Asian Reflections on the American landscape"
"Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California"
California Main Street
California Main Street, a program of the California Office of Historic Preservation, has provided superior state-level leadership on revitalization techniques using the Main Street Approach to revitalization.
State of California Office of Historic Preservation
State agency responsible for administering federal and state mandated historic preservation programs in California.
State Historical Building Safety Board
Develops and administers regulations and standards for the rehabilitation, preservation, restoration or relocation of historical buildings. |
Preserving California’s Japantowns' staff has developed a draft California Japantowns Bibliography to aid our research, and to support work by others that document Japanese American heritage. The bibliography focuses on published sources, and includes books and articles on general Nikkei history in California, followed by resources that document specific Japantowns. Many of these publications are widely available. However, apart from a few well-documented communities, most of California’s Japantowns have not been carefully researched, or the subject for widely-circulated publications. For that reason, many of the bibliography’s citations for specific communities are documents found in local archives that we had the opportunity to visit, as well as the California State Library, the California Office of Historic Preservation, and the Hirasaki National Resource Center at the Japanese American National Museum.