A monumental obelisk erected in 1937 to commemorate the completion of the Chilan Creek underground aqueduct. This aqueduct is a nearly 3 kilometer conduit, covered for half its length and open for the rest, built to divert water from Chilan Creek into Daojiang Canal (道將圳), one of Chiayi’s oldest irrigation systems. The monument stands at a bridgehead in Zhongpu just across from Sanjiepu (三界埔), its inscriptions still legible though the characters for the Shōwa era were defaced after the war.
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- 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.