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In 1908, a Washoe County grand jury and the Reno Board of Health decided that Chinatown was a health hazard. On Nov. 2, a crew with axes and sledgehammers “got busy tearing down every Chinese shack and shanty that bears the least evidence of unsanitary conditions,” according to the Nevada State Journal.
