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Today (May 20, 2012) I attended Tha Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm's celebration. The farm was bought by John Henry Schnell who had come from Japan (a Prussian) in 1869. He came with his Japanese wife and three other Japanese families. The brought with them thousands of tea plants, mulberry trees, silk worms, and traditional crops to start a tea and silk operation. The farm was eventually abandoned due to water and money issues, but what's left behind is the story of Samurai in Gold Hill, the first death and birth of Japanese people on US soil, and the remnants of their operation. For more info, visit the American River Concervance www.arconservancy.org