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

Outlying Area

The farm fields and irrigation ditches constructed by the evacuees are still in use and have been greatly expanded. The remains of the relocation center hog farm are located northwest of the intersection of Mohave and Polacca Roads (Figure 10.48). The portion of the hog farm closest to Mohave Road still has some intact slabs (Figure 10.49); most of those on the western end of the area have been up-rooted and piled. An inscription in the intact concrete slab foundation of the pump house reads "Div. of Soil 3/21/43" (Figure 10.50).

Figure 10.48. Site of the Poston Relocation Center hog farm today.

Figure 10.49. Concrete slab foundation at the site of the Poston Relocation Center hog farm.

Along the railroad just east of the town of Parker are the remains of the relocation center warehouse complex. The western edge of the warehouse area is now occupied by a Chevrolet dealer, and there is little of the warehouses or unloading platforms (Figure 10.51). However, four fire hydrants (Figure 10.52), which would have been located to the rear of the warehouses, are extant, as are several concrete slab foundations that likely date to the relocation center. One, measuring 25 feet by 38-1/2 feet, held the fuel oil storage tanks, and has six 9-1/2-foot-diameter stains from the storage tanks (Figure 10.53). A second slab foundation, 6 feet by 12 feet in size, was for the electrical substation, and a third slab, approximately 25-1/2 feet in diameter, supported the water tank. Other slabs for pumps and the water tower are partially visible, partially covered by sediments.

Many relocated buildings from the relocation center are in the surrounding area and in the town of Parker. Some still have their distinctive double roofs and other evidence of their former use: for example, a barracks now within Parker has a double roof and tin can lid patches over knot holes (Figures 10.54 and 10.55). The Colorado River Indian Tribe's old Head Start school, although lacking the double roof, was once a relocation center building (Figure 10.56). In addition to the relocation center hospital building at Poston II, there is another hospital building a little over 2 miles north of Poston I (Figure 10.57).

Figure 10.56. Relocated barracks formerly used as Head Start School.

Figure 10.57. Hospital building north of Poston I.

Photo Album

Continued

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