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 5 (continued)
Granada Relocation Center

Central (Fenced) Area
Residential Area

Figure 5.48 Foundation at the co-op location.

The slab foundations of most of the mess halls and communal bathroom and laundry buildings are still in place (Figures 5.39-5.41). Foundations for barracks, too, are unusually intact. Although barracks at other relocation centers rested on concrete blocks, at Granada barracks have concrete perimeter foundations, some rising about two feet above the ground surface(Figure 5.42), or complete concrete slabs (Blocks 10E, 11E, 11H, 12H, and 12K; Figure 5.43). Bolts to attach the wooden portion of the structure project from the foundations. At least one foundation retains a brick and concrete support for a coal-burning heater (Figure 5.44). The foundations are overgrown and distorted by trees and brush, and some of those that were not present may have been buried by sheet wash silt. Others, however, are completely missing: according to Simmons and Simmons (1993), foundations along the western edge of the residential area were reportedly broken up and used as rip-rap in area canals.

In the high school area the concrete block foundations have been removed, probably for reuse, but there are several small entry slabs and a larger L-shaped patio-like slab that once wrapped around one of the corners of the school building (Figures 5.45 and 5.46). Remains of a baseball backstop were observed in the athletic field to the west of the school. Foundation remains and a small concrete vault similar to one remaining at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center are at the co-op store location (Figures 5.47 and 5.48). The vault measures about 12 feet square by 9 feet high.

Archaeological evidence of evacuee improvements, other than the relict trees, is rare. Concrete "stones" near one mess hall slab were probably part of a decorative garden (Figure 5.49). No inscriptions or graffiti were observed in any of the concrete slabs or footings.

Photo Album

Continued

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