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Colorado River Relocation Camp


Name: Colorado River Relocation Camp
Category: Cultural
Archive ID#: AZ3153
 
Description: An internment camp in the desert where 17,000 people of Japanese ethnicity were imprisoned during World War Two. The facility consists of three camps in the region. One of ten such relocation camps in the country that imprisoned over 100,000 people during the war.
Location: Poston
(POINT(-114.3983492203 33.989868164))
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Address: AZ
La Paz County
Links: http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/anthropology74/ce10.htm
LCS: Correctional Facility, Cultural, Military
   
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