Yeoh Jetty 姓楊橋
Wooden clan jetty settlement built by Hokkien charcoal traders, now half swallowed by reclaimed land.
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This guide to Yeoh Jetty in George Town, Penang Island, opens in 2006 as bulldozers tear apart two neighboring wooden jetties, with Yeoh Jetty standing next in line. It traces the Yeoh clan back to a village called Xiayangcun in China's Fujian province, their charcoal-hauling trade off these planks, and what the jetty endured through the Japanese occupation and postwar land reclamation. Look toward the water and you can still find a half submerged concrete pier, a trace of land pushing in where the sea used to be.
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