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 6 (continued)
Heart Mountain Relocation Center

Outlying Features

The relocation center landfill could not be relocated even after searching the area depicted on WRA blueprints. Since this area is now farm fields the dump may be buried, or it may have been located elsewhere. There is a large dump just west of the relocation center site, but it appears to contain only post-relocation center material.

Foundations of the "low-level pumping plant" which pumped water to the filter plant remain on the bank of the Shoshone River. A 20-foot-by-45-foot foundation is located in an area overgrown with vegetation (Figure 6.32). The area just east of the highway from the relocation center where the water plant and "high-level pumping plant" were located is now two separate farms. It is not known if any buildings or foundations from the relocation center use remain.

The concrete water reservoir is still on the ridge northwest of the evacuee barracks area. About 120 feet by 150 feet in size, it apparently originally had a wood and shingle roof (Figure 6.33). There is a small trash dump nearby consisting mostly of cans. The dump probably post-dates the relocation center use, since cans were generally recycled during the war. The dump contains a 1959 Wyoming automobile licence plate, also suggesting later deposition.All of the canals and fields used by the relocation center are still being used. Rock and concrete work along the Heart Mountain Canal, noted on WRA blueprints as done by the evacuees, is still evident in numerous spots, especially at bridges and head gates.

Figure 6.32. Remains of the low-level pumping plant.

Figure 6.33. Concrete reservoir at Heart Mountain.

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