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Anchored by the elaborate Dragon Gate at the foot of Grant Avenue, San Francisco's Chinatown is the oldest established Chinatown in North America and the largest Chinese community outside Asia. Its origins go back to the late 1840s, when Chinese immigrants arrived in the city during the California Gold Rush, and the neighbourhood has remained a vital cultural, residential and commercial centre for the city's Chinese American community ever since, despite being entirely destroyed in the 1906 eart...