Editing Walnut Grove, California (section)

==Sites of interest==

===Walnut Grove Buddhist Church===
[[File:WGBC Taiko.jpg|thumb|A taiko troupe performs in front of the church during their annual summer bazaar]]

The [[Walnut Grove Buddhist Church]] in the [[Walnut Grove Japanese-American Historic District|Japanese district]] was founded in 1926 to serve the spiritual needs of the community, with over 100 members prior to WWII. It also served as a temporary hostel to house families who had lost their homes following their [[Internment of Japanese Americans|incarceration]] during the war.<ref name="History">{{cite web |last1=Kato |first1=Shigeo |title=Walnut Grove Buddhist Church History |url=https://walnutgrovebc.org/about-our-church/our-history/ |website=walnutgrovebc.org |access-date=April 6, 2022}}</ref>

Through the 80s and 90s, church membership fell as many of the older generation died, although many local residents as well as the children and grandchildren of the original members continue to support the church through the popular annual summer Bazaar and [[Bon (festival)|Obon]], providing much needed income to the church coffers.<ref name="History" />

===Locke===
Chan Tin-San is commonly credited as the earliest resident of [[Locke, California]]. He was the first Chinese person to construct a building on the Locke brothers' property, where he realized the business potential of the Southern Pacific wharf and warehouse. After the October 1915 fire which destroyed the Walnut Grove Chinatown, a number of Chung-San District people moved to the area and Locke was officially established.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Locke Historic-District, CA (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/places/locke-historic-district.htm#:~:text=The%20town%20of%20Locke%20was,along%20the%20Sacramento%20River%20levee. |access-date=2025-05-11 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}</ref>

Lee Bing, the leader of the group, financed nine of the buildings. Locke is one of the few towns in the United States built entirely by Chinese. Known as the city "built by the Chinese, for the Chinese." It was built in 1915 and burned down twice. Locke was a bustling place with gambling houses, merchant stores and a movie house all owned by the Chinese. Some of the original buildings are still standing.

===Towers===
[[File:Walnut Grove Post Office.jpg|thumb|Walnut Grove Post Office 95690. A Radio tower is visible on the left side of the image]]
Walnut Grove's location has made it the site of a rare collection of very tall radio and television transmission towers. The first major tower here was the [[KXTV/KOVR/KCRA Tower]] built in 1962, which dominated the skyline for over twenty years with its 1,548-foot height. In 1985 the old tower was joined by taller structures. The guyed [[KXTV/KOVR Tower]] is, with a height of 2,048 feet, one of the tallest constructions in the world. Two other guyed towers of similar height are the 1,996-foot-high Channel 40 Tower ([[KTXL]]), and the 2,000-foot-high [[Hearst-Argyle Tower]]. Towers sited here at the natural corner of the [[California Central Valley]] have [[Line-of-sight propagation|line of sight]] coverage of flat valley floor for over 60 miles (100 kilometers) to the north and to the south-southeast, and quite good coverage into the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra]] foothills and mountains across the valley to the northeast and east. However, these towers and their guy-wires are a significant hazard to aircraft, which can otherwise freely cross most of the Central Valley at 656 feet of altitude.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}