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 13 (continued)
Tule Lake Relocation Center

Central Fenced Area
Evacuee Residential Area

Figure 13.34. Concrete slab foundation of combination men's and women's latrine and shower building in Ward 7.

In the evacuee residential area, all of the relocation center roads west of the "M" Canal have been obliterated. Most of the evacuee residential area is taken up by the Tule Lake Airport. The vicinity is irrigated and used for grazing and cultivated fields. One area now has a transfer station for recycling waste.

Along a post-relocation center road in the western end of the central area the foundation slabs of some of the communal buildings within two blocks of Ward 7 remain. The size and layout of two of the slabs indicate they were the combined men's and women's latrine and shower building; one of the slabs has been damaged by the new road (Figures 13.34-13.37). Other slabs remain from laundry buildings, and concrete bins for the storage of heating coal are still present (Figure 13.38). Nearby, in a field south of an access road to the airport, there is a segment of basalt and concrete-lined ditch and a culvert from a relocation center road (Figure 13.39).

There are few artifacts in the cleared irrigated areas; these include small intact bottles, jar fragments with 1940s date marks, other glass fragments, a few hotel ware ceramic fragments, abundant coal, lumber fragments, drywall fragments, concrete debris, stove pipe, and animal bone fragments. At the relocation center high school site there are manholes and numerous foundation blocks (Figure 13.40), apparently little disturbed in spite of grazing and other activities in the vicinity.

Figure 13.44. Manhole in Ward 8.

Blocks built to the east of the original evacuee housing when Tule Lake was converted to a segregation center (Ward 8) have not been farmed or irrigated, and the road grid is still marked by red cinder roads (Figure 13.41). Slabs and rubble at latrine locations (Figure 13.42), a standing metal clothesline pole (Figure 13.43), and manholes remain, as well as scattered artifacts from the relocation center use.

Photo Album

Continued

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