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EARLY ARMENIAN IMMIGRATION TO CALIFORNIA Armenians migrated to California’s San Joaquin Valley as early as the 1880s. In 1901, three Armenians were walking southeast from Fresno when they came across a region at the foothills of the Sierra Mountains. They felt an inexplicable connection to the land and began singing songs of their homeland. They set up tents and founded the town of Yettem - “Garden of Eden” in Armenian. To this day, it is the only town with an Armenian name in the United States. Join TGHS Board Member Ani Mnatsakanyan as she shares stories of resilience and community strength as Armenians reconstruct their lives in a foreign land, while attempting to preserve their identity and memories of the homeland they were forced to leave behind.
