Yamato Colony

Yamato Colony

Yamato Colony can refer to some places in the United States:

*Yamato Colony, California, a Japanese-American agricultural community in Livingston, California
*Yamato Colony, Florida, an early 20th dentury Japanese agricultural community between Boca Raton and Delray Beach
*Yamato Colony, Texas, an early 20th century Japanese-owned sugar plantation near Brownsville, Texas [http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/txtext/japanese/htms/7.htm]


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