He was a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had lived in a lonely corner of California, among the woods and mountains, a good many years, and had studied the ways of his only neighbors, the beasts and the birds, until he believed he could accurately translate any remark which they made.
Immigration Station. In 1905, construction of the Immigration Station began in the area then known as North Garrison. Surrounded by public controversy from its inception, the station was finally put into partial operation in 1910. It was designed to process Chinese immigrants whose entry was restricted by the Chinese Exclusion Law of 1882.
In the early years, the Board Chairman's State Department of Education served as the national headquarters for HOSA. Thus, the first national HOSA Headquarters was located in Raleigh, North Carolina (November 1976 through spring 1978); the second, in Trenton, New Jersey (1978â79). Oklahoma was selected as the site and Spring 1978 as the date for the first National HOSA Conference. 2  The Spring date in 1977â78 was selected to provide time for dissemination of information, for state and local organizing efforts and as a culmination of the first full year of HOSA.