A small resettlement village near the mouth of the Xinjie River (新街溪) on the coast of Dayuan, Taoyuan. It was settled by 9 households displaced by the construction of Shimen Reservoir (石門水庫). Some allocated plots were too close to the sea to farm and were later expropriated by the Forestry Bureau (林務局) for a windbreak forest. Landless residents drifted away to find work, leaving fewer than half of the original households in place today. In 1963 a resident brought a land god idol from his home village and built a simple shrine, rebuilt by the remaining community in 1993 as Fu’an Temple (福安宮).
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Links
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
Themes
- Shimen Reservoir Project (石門水庫建設)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.