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In an effort that began in January 2013, Historic Wintersburg is pleased to announce the PBS series, Our American Family: The Furutas of Historic Wintersburg.  The film will have a worldwide advance screening on Saturday, February 21 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California. Historic Wintersburg is...

The Huntington Beach City Council on Tuesday paved the way for the demolition of the oldest Japanese Presbyterian church in Southern California, reports the blog Historic Wintersburg. The council voted 4 to 3 to support the rezoning and demolition action and to certify the Environmental Impact Report. While the clock is...

By Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent Preservationists and anti-hate protesters joined forces in historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach Saturday three weeks after a fire destroyed the Japanese American settlement near Los Angeles. They called for an end to violence against Asian Americans and the need to protect the community's history....

Preservationist, historians and community activists are fighting the sale of an historic site of special significance to the Japanese American community. The land in the Southern California town of Wintersburg in Hungtington Beach is the location of six buildings from the earliest days of Japanese settlement in Orange County during...

Preservationists trying to save the historic Japanese American site of Wintersburg in California won two major victories Thursday. The Orange County Register reports the early 20th Century Japanese American settlement in Huntington Beach has been named a national treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. At about the same time,...

An historic Japanese American site in Southern California that faces the wrecking ball was thrown a life preserver when it was added to the 2014 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, reports Rafu Shimpo. The site in Huntington Beach in Orange County, CA consists of six buildings including...

The "final fate" of the historic Wintersburg site in California could be determined this Tuesday by the Huntington Beach city council in California, reports the Rafu Shimpo. Wintersburg is the home of the Furuta family farm and Wintersburg Japanese Presbyterian Church. The church was an integral part of the pre-war...

In 1913 and again in 1920, Congress passed laws that became known as the California Alien Land Law. The law prohibited Japanese, Chinese, Indian and Korean immigrant farmers from owning land in California. Although many Asian immigrants were singled out in the law, the primary target of the California legislature was...

  Efforts to save the  oldest Japanese Presbyterian Church in Southern California gained new momentum with a visit from the Japanese consulate this week, reports the OC Register. The church in the Orange County town of Winterburg includes a mission, family home and bungalow, among other structures. Japanese Consulate General Jun...