A small and mostly depopulated village originally built for refugees from the Dachen Islands in 1955. Initially it was home to 150 households and 690 residents, many of them soon employed in sugarcane cultivation. The spiritual center of the village is Dongshan Yangfu Temple (東山楊府廟), but it typically isn’t open to the public except on special occasions.
Map
Links
- Center For GIS, Academia Sinica (文化資源地理資訊系統)
Sources
- Dachen New Village Demographics 《大陳新村各地區人口分佈及職業概況》
Themes
- Dachen New Villages (台灣大陳村)
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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.