History sign acroos street from Chamber of Commerce behind old Advent Christian Church.
Marker Name: John Day/Canyon City
Marker Text: The mining camp town of Canyon City sprang up soon after the discovery of gold in Canyon Creek in 1861. When Grant County formed in 1864, Canyon City became the County Seat. Meanwhile, “Lower Town’ developed a mile downstream, to be named John Day in 1865. Prosperity continued with the mining of nearly 50 tones of gold through the 1800s.
The gold discovery brought ten thousand people to the John Day/Canyon City area, including five to six thousand Chinese. The nearby Kam Wah Chung Museum is a memorial to the Chinese heritage, and is one of several buildings in the area on the National Register of Historic Places.
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