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 7 (continued)
Jerome Relocation Center

Outlying Areas

Figure 7.28. Equipment at the Jerome sewage treatment plant today.

One-half mile east of the relocation center residential area is the sewage treatment plant. It is in good condition and much of its associated machinery, such as pumps and other equipment, still remain. One interesting feature of the plant was the innovative use of filter rock, much of which is still present (Figures 7.26-7.28).

No other outlying features definitely associated with the relocation center were identified. West of the relocation center and U.S. Highway 165 are the Jerome railroad siding and the old highway (Figure 7.29). When the relocation center was in use, the highway was on the west side of the railroad. The present highway, east of the railroad, was constructed through the western edge of the central area, where H Street, the boundary fence, and the west patrol road were once located.

Most of the surrounding countryside, including the scout camp, is now irrigated fields or fish farms. Little remains of the forest that covered most of the area in the 1940s. Currently-used ditches follow the 1940s alignments. All are unlined, and have steel pipe control gates and valves (Figure 7.30).

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