乐居镇(Locke)位于北加州萨拉门托河三角洲上,它是美国西部唯一一个由中国人开辟并建立的小镇。从19世纪60年代开始,有三至四千名华人来到这里修筑大堤、开凿水渠,将原本的沼泽地改造为适合农作物的良田,而后就留在当地成为农场工人和佃农。1915年的一场大火,烧毁了华工们原先的居住地,于是他们其中的一个分支决定借此独立出来,建立完全属于自己的村子,这就是今天的乐居镇。 Located on the Sacramento River Delta in Northern California, Locke is the only town in the western United States that was opened up and established by the Chinese. From the 1860s onwards, three to four thousand Chinese came here to build levees, dig water channels, transform the original marshland into arable land suitable for crops, and then remain there as farm workers and tenant farmers. In 1915, a huge fire destroyed the original living places of the Chinese laborers, so one of their branches decided to separate themselves and set up their own village, which is today the town of Le Fort.