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

Outlying Areas
Other Features

Figure 13.99. Cross on promontory southeast of Newell.

The relocation center water tanks and most of the wells south of State Highway 139 are still in use. The foundation blocks of the watch tower (CCC fire lookout) on the Peninsula south of Newell are still in place.

Southwest of Newell there is a steel cross on a rock promontory of the Peninsula (Figure 13.99). The original cross of wood was constructed by the evacuees. It deteriorated or was destroyed, and the current cross was placed by the California Japanese Christian Church Federation. A plaque at the base of the cross reads "Tule Lake Christian Ministry Monument — October 2, 1982" and lists the names of the 24 ministers that served the center (Iritani and Iritani 1994).

After Tule Lake was closed the remaining burials at the relocation center cemetery were moved to the Linkville Cemetery in Klamath Falls. There, a small plot contains two grave markers and two other memorials to the Japanese Americans who died at Tule Lake (Figures 13.100-13.104). All are flush to ground. The largest is a brass plaque that is set into a granite slab. It reads: "in memory of deceased internees of tulelake relocation center/flowers faded in the desert wind/(11 names)/dedicated by japanese american citizen league on september 10, 1989." The other memorial is a granite slab that reads: "in memory of deceased/1942-1945/tulelake w.r.a." One of grave markers is a small stone which appears to be a natural boulder on which Japanese and English was inscribed. The English text reads: "dec 6 1942/our baby/j. matsubara." The other grave marker is a shaped concrete piece which contains only Japanese characters translated as "The grave of Kouzo Hamao/Died in June 5th Showa 18(?)/ Sixty-six(?) years old." Both of these grave markers are about 15 inches long. The Matsubara baby is included in the list on the brass plaque, but Kouzo Hamao's name is not.

Photo Album

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