Founded in 1916 as the Luodong Credit Union (羅東信用組合) by district leader Chén Chúnjīng (陳純精) and local gentry to provide financial services in a town that had none. Expanded into agricultural warehousing in 1920 to address grain drying and storage problems in the rainy Lanyang climate, and built its current two-storey office in 1936. Nowadays it appears to be disused.
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Links
- Yilan Notes (宜蘭‧天晴‧風雨香)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Agricultural History in Taiwan (台灣農業史)
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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.