Minidoka Internment National Monument
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| Minidoka Internment National Monument | |
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| IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape) | |
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| Location | Jerome County, ID, USA |
| Nearest city | Eden, Idaho |
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| Area | 73 acres (0.29 km²) |
| Established | January 17, 2001 |
| Governing body | National Park Service |
Minidoka Internment National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located in Jerome County, Idaho, 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Twin Falls and just north of Eden, in an area known as Hunt. The remote high desert area north of the Snake River was the site of the Minidoka War Relocation Center from 1942-45, one of ten camps at which Japanese Americans, both citizens and resident aliens, were interned during World War II.
Minidoka is the name of a reclamation project which also gives its name to the neighboring Minidoka County[citation needed]. The Minidoka name was applied to the Idaho relocation center in Jerome County to avoid confusion with the Jerome War Relocation Center in Jerome, Arkansas.[citation needed]
The monument is administered by the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Under provisions of President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, all persons of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the West Coast of the United States. Minidoka housed more than 9,000 Japanese Americans, predominantly from Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.[1]
The internment camp site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 1979. The national monument was established in 2001, and as one of the newest units of the National Park System, it does not have any visitor facilities or services available. Currently, visitors see the remains of the entry guard station, waiting room, and rock garden and can visit the Relocation Center display at the Jerome County Museum in nearby Jerome and the restored barracks building at the Idaho Farm and Ranch Museum southeast of town. There is a small marker adjacent to the remains of the guard station, and a larger sign at the intersection of Highway 25 and Hunt Road, which gives some of the history of the camp.
The National Park Service began a three-year public planning process in the fall of 2002 to develop a General Management Plan (GMP) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).[citation needed] The General Management Plan sets forth the basic management philosophy for the Monument and provides the strategies for addressing issues and achieving identified management objectives that will guide management of the site for the next 15 - 20 years.[citation needed]
The Friends of Minidoka sponsor an annual, multi-day pilgrimage of camp survivors and the public to the site every June.
On December 21, 2006 President Bush signed H.R. 1492 into law guaranteeing $38,000,000 in federal money to restore the Minidoka relocation center along with nine other former Japanese internment camps. "H.R. 1492".
[edit] References
- ^ Friends of Minidoka: WWII Internment. Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
[edit] See also
- Internment camp
- Japanese American internment
- Manzanar War Relocation Center
- War Relocation Authority
[edit] External links
- Official Park Service site
- University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Social Issues Photographs 500 historical images from Western United States and the Pacific Northwest region covering political and social topics such as women's issues, labor and government, and ethnic groups with special emphasis on the Japanese internment camps (including the Minidoka Relocation Center and the Puyallup Assembly center known as Camp Harmony) in the Northwest during World War II.
- Minidoka Internment National Monument is at coordinates Coordinates:
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