A county administration was established there during the Tongzhi reign of the Qing dynasty and a city wall built. All four of the old city wall's original gates remain completely intact to this day, and the East Gate still retains a section of the city wall which lends a rich sense of what it must have been like in former times.
恆春舊名「琅嶠」，早在清同治年間就築城牆、設縣治，恆春古城四座城門至今保存完整，東門還連著一排城牆，饒富古意。