During the past threequarters of the century. they have left their marks in the teeming valleys throughout the length and breadth of this great State. Many descendants are carrying on the work of their pioneer forebears with the same devotion. determination and skill which helped to make California the most productive farming State in the United States and the greatest agricultural region in the world. Thus. it is befitting that the land which was once the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony be historically recognized as the site of (a) the only silk and tea farm in this State and (b) the first venture into agriculture by Japanese immigrants in the United States and (c) where the important participation of the pioneers from Japan to Californias agriculture had its beginning.
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