INCHEON MUNICIPAUTY Dong-gu

One of the remaining building from 19th century that was built as a boarding house for missionaries sent by American Methodist Association. In 1892 when George Heber Jones who was a methodist christian missionary tried to make this area a missionary base bought the land in 1893 and built 3 sections of houses until 1894.
After the liberation in April of 1949, it was re established as [Christian Social Center] by American methodist christian missionary Helen Boyles and played a role as matrix of social welfare projects and functioned as social welfare center of In Cheon area.

Wha Do Jin is military camp built at the foot of the Wha Do hill by the boundaries of Man Seok and Wha Soo Dong to look out for foreign warships and vessels of western countries appeared often towards the end of Chosun dynasty.
The place was a military camp to guard waterways of Gang Wha Do which was gateway to Han Yang while managing Yeon Hee fort, Gwaeng-E fort, Buk Sung fort and Non Hyun fort. Jin is an abbreviation of Jin Young which was one of district's government organizations where it managed military affairs and there were 3 grades which were Joo Jin, Geo Jin and Jae Jin depending on the rank of Chief of Jin Young and Wha Do Jin belongs to Jae Jin which was presided by Man Ho and Do Wi.

After the opening of port, with population rose rapidly and so were the expansion of vessels. Obtaining enough water became a biggest task and with infectious disease spreading nation wide, water supply establishment plan went under way around Japanese who were residing in In Cheon.
By pressure of Japanese Residency General who had essential needs of not only cleanliness and expense and military secret, Korean government established the water department at administration office in 1906 and in November of that year the construction started and September of 1910 it was completed with machinery room, settling basin, filter basin at No Ryang Jin reservoir by the coast of Han River and clean water reservoir on the top of near by mountain and distributing reservoir in the Soo Doo Guk San of Song Rim Dong in In Cheon and they had historic water distribution ceremony on October 30th,1910.

Current school building of Young Wha school was built for modern education based on missionary purpose. They bought 1,226 pyoung of land in Woo Gak Hyun in 1909 and started construction on March 30th, 1910 for 3 story high and gross area of 212 pyoung school building and finished on September 14th, 1911 Arrangement of school building had surrounding view due to highly positioned floors up on the hill and play ground positioned in the south had made view opportunity which was rare at the time.

Excluding the part added to construction it has been well preserved in its original form and it is the building constructed with traditional red brick each of them sized average of 227x109x59. Brickwork was done in the way where at the end or corner, halves were not used instead, they used 7.5 Block which is stretching bond then on to heading bond and finalized with dutch bond.

In Cheon Maritime Customs (current In Cheon Customs) was established on June 16th, 1883 and 1st Chief of maritime customs was English man named "String Fling" and for 2nd Chief was "Shenike-Sa Nap Ki(史納機)". Maritime customs system was introduced under the influence of Tsing Dynasty at the time.

This document is estimated to be a part of official letter sent by 2nd chief of maritime customs "SheNiKe(Sa Nap Ki,史納機 ) during his term to In Cheon Administration Office from In Cheon Maritime Customs regarding various countries settlement promotion around current Joong Gu area and it is a rare piece of data of personal signature of She Ni Ke and year and date signed and document number.