Dosan in America

Dosan isn’t a figure waiting to be commemorated. His name is already on the American public record. Here are five places.

Pachappa Camp
Riverside, California · 1904
The first Korean settlement on the U.S. mainland, recognized in 2017 as America’s first Koreatown. The memorial will rise beside it.
The Dosan Statue
Riverside, California
A statue standing among the civic figures Riverside chose to honor.
Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange
Downtown Los Angeles, I-10 at I-110
Hundreds of thousands of drivers pass through his name every day.
Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Station
6th Street & Harvard, Los Angeles
The first U.S. Post Office ever named for an Asian American figure.
The Ahn Family House
University of Southern California
The family home, now home to USC’s Korean Studies Institute.

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