ANTIOCH
Contra Costa County • California Local
Antioch incorporated February 6, 1872
On July 4, 1851, Rev. William Wiggins Smith, the town’s new minister, persuaded the residents to change the name of the town to Antioch, for the biblical city of Antioch.
The value of other cultures were not known in the early days of Antioch. For example, Antioch banned Chinese residents, numbering in the hundreds, from walking the streets after sundown.
In 1876, the Antioch Chinatown was burned down due to arson; the fire department refused to put out the fire. For nearly 100 years, virtually no Chinese lived in Antioch. The 1960 census showed that only 12 residents were Chinese.
Antioch has grown to value other ethnicities, even electing the first African American mayor, Wade Harper, in 2012. In the last 30 years, as the population of the Bay Area continues to grow, so does Antioch’ various cultures including the Asian population.
Mayor Lamar Thorpe, a valuable “community bridge builder”, announced on April 14, 2021, that the city would establish a Chinatown historic district in the downtown and acknowledge the city’s racist past. Antioch’s motto is “Opportunity Lives Here”.
Today, Antioch always embraces cultural equality, diversity, inclusion, equity, unity and is an historic business-friendly diverse community. Antioch is rolling out the welcome mat to people of all ethnicities and cultures, new entrepreneurs, new residents and new value-added businesses.
In the spirit of early settlers and business leaders, Antioch’s entrepreneurs have created local business opportunities for future entrepreneurs in the city. The demand for startup ventures and the need for more goods and services has ignited the spirit of business ownership in local Antioch communities.
The City of Antioch is in a fast growing California county for new businesses. In the spirit of enterprising early settlers, Antioch is in a great location where local individual creativity and skills can thrive and where self-starter and motivated entrepreneurs can create their own dream business in Antioch.
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