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 4 (continued)
Gila River Relocation Center

Butte Camp
Administration, Hospital, and Warehouse Areas

In Block 70, the L-shaped concrete slab foundation of the administration building is still apparent, although it has been partially broken up (Figure 4.62). Footing pier blocks also remain at some of the other administration building sites in this block. Most of the slab foundations for the administrative offices and warehouses in Block 69 are still intact, although two slabs in the northwest portion the block have been broken up. In the Block 76 staff housing area there is an up-turned cistern (Figure 4.63).

Figure 4.62. Foundation of administration building at Butte Camp.

Figure 4.63. Overturned cistern at Butte Camp.

In the hospital area numerous footing piers and concrete entries mark the locations of offices and wards (Figures 4.64 and 4.65). Many of the footing piers are over 18 inches high. At either end of the hospital complex there is a large concrete-walled rectangular vault sunk into the ground that appears to have been a grease trap (Figure 4.66). South of the hospital wards, concrete slab foundations remain at the laundry room and heating plant locations (Figures 4.67 and 4.68). Between the two foundations there is a large square cistern (Figure 4.69). Northwest of the hospital area there are two incinerators made of poured concrete (Figure 4.70). They were likely used for the disposal of hazardous hospital waste.

East of the hospital, in the staff housing area, there are four 20-foot-by-94-foot concrete slab foundations of apartment buildings (Figure 4.71). Eight other staff apartment buildings built by the evacuees apparently did not have slab foundations. Large tamarisk trees and concrete entry steps remain at one of the building locations. A 16-foot-by-20-foot slab is likely from a laundry room (Figure 4.72).

All of the concrete slab foundations in the warehouse blocks are still intact. Several of the slabs in the northeast portion of Block 67 are currently being used as form foundations for pouring small steel reinforced-concrete slabs used for canal bridges and diversions (Figure 4.73). Across the road to the north of the warehouse blocks there is a concrete gas pump island, a 30-by-100-foot slab from a refrigerated warehouse (Figure 4.74), four 20-foot-by-100-foot concrete slabs from shops and warehouses, a 37-foot-by-168-foot perimeter foundation from a never-completed machine shop, and a raised concrete foundation from an ice house (Figure 4.75). On a low hill west of the ice house foundation there is a modern steel water tank.

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