Stockton's Little Manila was home to the United States' largest Filipino community in the 1900s. Many came to the U.S. searching for opportunity and worked in agriculture in San Joaquin County. There were many firsts for the Stockton area because of the Filipino community from churches, shops, and clubs, according to Terry Torres with the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS). Not much remains of what used to be called Little Manila, an area in Stockton that stretched for several