Cover Page

Table of Contents

Abstract

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Essay

Brief History

Gila River

Granada

Heart Mountain

Jerome

Manzanar

Minidoka

Poston

Rohwer

Topaz

Tule Lake

Isolation Centers

Add'l Facilities

Assembly Centers

DoJ and US Army Facilities

Prisons

References

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites by J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord, and R. Lord

Chapter 10 (continued)
Poston Relocation Center

Figure 10.19. Poston III central area.
(National Archives)
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Poston III, the farthest south of the three units, included an administration area, a garage area, and a net factory, as well as 18 evacuee residential blocks (Figure 10.19). Block numbers began with 301. The administration area, garage, and warehouses were located north of the entrance, in a triangular area formed by Mohave Road, 3rd Street, and "I" Street. The administration area, in Blocks 313 and 314, included a mess hall, staff quarters, a garage, three offices, a clinic, a fire station, and a firemen's dormitory. The garage area, in Block 301, included five warehouses, a gasoline station, and a garage. The warehouse area, in Block 302, included 15 warehouses and a privy.

The 18 residential blocks at Poston III were arranged in three groups of six blocks; one of the blocks (Block 324) was used as the elementary school, and another (Block 310) for community services. The high school, constructed by the evacuees, was located in a large open space between the administrative area and the northernmost residential block. It included an office, library, auditorium, and seven classroom buildings, all of adobe. The west central open area, between the two westernmost residential blocks, included a net factory with a weaving shed and a latrine, a recreation area with two swimming pools and a stage, a motor pool, and a dry goods store.

The Poston III chicken farm was to the north of the high school, and included 11 laying houses, two brooder houses, a store room, and an office. Southwest of the chicken farm and northwest of the high school was the farm nursery, with an office, a nursery, and a privy, all evacuee-built. To the west of the southernmost residential area was the sewage treatment plant, which included a pump house, clarifier, digester, and sludge beds.

Figure 10.20. Farms at the Poston Relocation Center. (National Archives) (click image for larger size (~86K) )

Unlike most other relocation centers, at Poston the agricultural fields and developments were within the fenced security area (Figures 10.20-10.22). In 1943, 368 acres were cultivated; in 1944, over 1,400 acres of vegetables and 800 acres of field crops were under cultivation. In addition to the chicken farms at each of the three units mentioned above, there was a hog farm located between Poston I and II, with hogs subsisting mainly on center garbage. The hog farm contained 12 pens with sheds and feeding floors, six farrowing pens, and pasture. Facilities also included two small watchman's houses (8 foot by 10 foot, and 10 foot by 14 foot in size), a 20 foot by 100 ft warehouse, a 30 foot by 36 foot processing house, a motor house, cold storage, an 18-1/2 by 33 foot slaughter house, a latrine, a water tank, a pump house, a garbage can washing station, and a fuel tank (Figure 10.23).

An additional warehouse for the relocation center area was built along the railroad outside of Parker. It included a railroad spur with unloading platforms, five warehouses, one refrigerated warehouse, fuel oil storage tanks, a substation, a water tank, a water tower, and a pump house (Figure 10.24).

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