Japantown Senior Apartments

Stone quern fragment

Used for grinding grains and beans

Cold cream jar

Opaque white glass cold cream jar fragments and an 1890s newspaper ad for “Lola Montez Crème”

Watch fob

Watch fob embossed with two bulldogs

Stone quern fragment
Cold cream jar
Watch fob

Japantown Senior Apartments

Client
: 
First Community Housing
Date
: 
March, 2008 to April, 2009
Period
: 
Historic
Type
: 
excavation
Context
: 
CEQA
City
: 
San Jose
County
: 
Santa Clara
State
: 
California
Full Report
: 
Down to the Last Grain of Rice: San Jose Archaeological Investigations

Archaeological testing and evaluation studies carried out in 2008 and 2009 identified two cultural deposits eligible to California Register of Historical Resources (CRHR) within the Japantown Senior Apartments Project site on the west side of Sixth Street in San José, close to its intersection with Taylor Street.

This report presents archaeological data recovered through excavation and archival research carried out at the Project site. It provides a brief history of previous research regarding the site; summarizes the research design and methods of archaeological testing and evaluation studies; presents findings including type of deposits, locations, and a description of artifacts recovered during excavation; provides a historical overview and association for the cultural deposits based on documentary research and oral history interviews; evaluates the deposits for eligibility to the CRHR; and presents the archaeological findings.