Immigration Timeline

Negotiated during the first U.S. mission to China, the treaty allows for mostly unrestricted Chinese immigration to the U.S. Early Chinese residents of Indianapolis include a laundry owner, Wah Lee, who settles here around 1873; and E. Lung, owner of a laundry on Massachusetts Avenue, who arrives in 1879. 

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