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 11 (continued)
Rohwer Relocation Center

Security Features

Figure 11.29. Manhole at the Rohwer sewage treatment plant.

No evidence of the original perimeter fence or watch towers remain. In the former military police compound, there is a residence and a fallow field.

Outlying Areas

No records or maps of any outlying features other than the relocation center cemetery and sewage treatment plant have been found. A cursory inspection of the surrounding area suggests that no features likely remain.

Sewage Treatment Plant

Now surrounded by rice fields, the sewage treatment plant was located west of the southwest corner of the central area. It is similar in design to the plant at the Jerome Relocation Center, but smaller and with no evidence of filter rock beds (Figures 11.28 and 11.29). Access to the sewage treatment plant is via a dirt road that becomes nearly impassably muddy during wet weather.

Cemetery

The relocation center cemetery, enclosed by concrete fence posts, includes 24 uniform cast concrete headstones, two large concrete monuments, a toppled concrete bench, a flagpole, sidewalks, and two concrete entrance markers facing towards the relocation center, all built by the evacuees (Figures 11.30-11.33). Interestingly, the cemetery is not shown on WRA blueprints. The present approach road was probably part of the former "A" Street, which was part of the patrol road that encircled the outside of the barbed wire perimeter fence (Figure 11.34).

One monument, in the shape of a military tank, is to the Japanese Americans in the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team who were killed in Italy and France (Figure 11.35). The second monument is to those who died in the relocation center (Figure 11.36). It has both Japanese and English inscriptions. The Japanese translates to: "May the people of Arkansas keep in beauty and reverence forever this ground where our bodies sleep." The English inscription reads: "Erected by the inhabitants of Rohwer Relocation Center October 1944." Two recent monuments at the cemetery are discussed below.

Photo Album

Continued

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