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Friday, September 06, 2013 / Published in Forgotten People, Local Heroes and Heroines, Local History, Uncategorized, Woo-Woo Moments

The Sad Story of Hop Wo: The Chinese Laundryman

Rolling through the microfilm one day I came across a small notice in the Asheville Daily Citizen of July 26, 1894 which said: ”Chinatown’s inhabitants are delighted over the return of Hop Wo, the laundryman, after an absence of several years.  Hop Wo has been, since leaving here, in New York, Chicago and Cincinnati and
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