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

Interpretation

Figure 13.107. The Harvey Yoshizuka Sand House at the Caltrans maintenance yard in Newell.

A large monument of basalt rock and concrete along the north side of State Highway 139 commemorates the relocation center. The monument, dedicated in 1979, incorporates multiple levels of rock walls, a concrete apron, and a state historical marker (Figures 13.105 and 13.106).

In the Caltrans maintenance yard at Newell is the Harvey Yoshizuka Sand House (Figure 13.107). Built in the 1980s, it was named for a young evacuee at the relocation center who is now an engineer working for Caltrans. As an aside, much of the exterior filming of the 1970s television movie "Farewell to Manzanar" was done at Tule Lake.

The Bureau of Reclamation office in Klamath Falls has historical photographs, a large set of blueprints (see Appendices), and other files from the relocation center. They also have a couple of office chairs that were made at the Tule Lake evacuee-operated furniture factory.

There is a small exhibit about the Tule Lake Center at the county fairgrounds museum (Cohen 1994), and Lava Beds National Monument maintains a small collection of ceramics and other artifacts from the relocation center (Figures 13.108 and 13.109). An interesting item in the Lava Beds collection are some metal pieces that would go over the lower end of a roof rafter (the end showing under the eaves) embossed with Japanese characters that translate as "May happiness come here."

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