Pachappa Camp is curated by Edward Chang, Professor of Ethnic Studies and founding Director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at the University of California at Riverside, and Carol K. Park, Graduate Student Researcher, UCR Ethnic Studies, Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies.
The “Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States” online exhibition contains archival photographs, maps, newspaper articles and advertisements, and other digital materials, that examines the history and legacy of Pachappa Camp and the life of Dosan Ahn Chang Ho.
The exhibit also highlights the friendship between the families of Violet Catherine Kim, a granddaughter of In (Nin) Soo Kim and Meiko Inaba.
Feel free to click through the different tabs and explore the digital exhibit.
Pachappa Camp was founded in 1905 (possibly late 1904) by Dosan Ahn Chang Ho. The settlement was located in Riverside, CA and was home to around 300 Koreans at its height.
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he first Korean to become a naturalized American citizen was Soh Jaipil (Seo Jae-pil) in 1890. Soh changed his name to Philip Jaisohn. He became a medical doctor in 1894 and was the first Korean to earn a medical degree from an American university.
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