Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum

Kam Wah Chung Heritage Site 金華中藥店歷史地點
Kam Wah Chung building
Type	Public, state
Location	Grant County, Oregon
Nearest city	John Day,
Coordinates
Area	0.42 acres (0.17 ha)
Operated by	Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
Kam Wah Chung Company Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Built	1866
NRHP Reference #	73001575
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	March 20, 1973
Designated NHL	September 20, 2005

Kam Wah Chung Heritage Site
Chinese	金華中藥店歷史地點
Literal meaning	Kam Wah Chung Pharmacy Historic Site
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jīn Huázhōng yàodiàn lìshǐ dìdiǎn Yue: Cantonese Jyutping gam1 waa4 zung1 joek1 dim3 lik6 si2 dei6 dim2

The Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum, also known as Kam Wah Chung Company Building, is a state park and a National Historic Landmark that preserves early Chinese culture in John Day in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built in 1866 or 1867 as a trading post along a wagon road later known as The Dalles Military Road, it later became the center of the Chinese community in John Day as a store and apothecary run by Ing Hay (known also as "Doc Hay") and Lung On, Chinese immigrants from Guangdong.

The building remained abandoned after Ing Hay died in 1952. He asked that the building be deeded to the city of John Day with the provision it be turned into a museum. His wish, and the ownership of the building, were forgotten until 1967. While surveying for a new park the city discovered its ownership of the building and began to restore it as it was in the 1940s.

Today the Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum contains one of the most extensive collections of materials from the century-long influx of Chinese immigrants in the American West. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and designated a National Historic Landmark by the Secretary of the Interior in 2005.

See also

• List of Oregon state parks
• List of National Historic Landmarks in Oregon
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Grant County, Oregon