Chinese Massacre Cove is an area along the Snake River in Wallowa County, Oregon, United States. It is located in the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest and the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, upriver from the Snake's confluence with the Imnaha River.[1]
In 1887 in Oregon's Hells Canyon on the Snake River a gang of at least four white men robbed, murdered and mutilated 31 Chinese men.[2] Three people were brought to trial but none was ever convicted.[3] The area was named Chinese Massacre Cove on October 12, 2005.[4]
Coordinates: 45°46′47″N 116°39′18″W / 45.7797222°N 116.6550000°W
   | Lesson Fifteen: Industrialization, Class, and Race: Chinese and the Anti-Chinese Movement in the Late 19th-Century Northwest - History of Washington State and the Pacific Northwest |
| | "A Most Daring Outrage": Murders at Chinese Massacre Cove, 1887 - R. Gregory Nokes | "A Most Daring Outrage": Murders at Chinese Massacre Cove, 1887 | Oregon Historical Quarterly, 107.3 | The History Cooperative |
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