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| Keywords: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A section of the Amache Relocation Center at Granada, . . . - NARA - 539937.jpg Scope and content The full caption for this photograph reads Granada Relocation Center Amache Colorado A section of the Amache Relocation Center at Granada Colorado as it looks today The trees were planted by the evacuees to provide shade on the sandy sun baked soil on which the center was erected Temperatures of 120 and higher are not uncommon A total of nearly 15 000 evacuees were inducted into the Granada Project Amache Colorado since August 27 1942 when the first group arrived from the Merced Assembly Center to prepare the camp for those to follow The Relocation Center as its name implies was a temporary residence for those of Japanese ancestry who were transferred from their homes along the west coast under a war emergency measure of 1942 Many of the evacuees during the past three years were able to resettle and find new homes in the Middle West and eastern states From September 1 1945 to the closing date of October 15 3 105 persons have gone back to their former homes or have relocated elsewhere The last to leave the center a group of 126 left on two special coaches for Sacramento and nearby towns At the peak of its population Amache had 7 567 residents 412 births were recorded and 107 deaths during the three years of its existence General notes 539937 Local identifier 210-G-K416 Department of the Interior War Relocation Authority 02/16/1944 - 06/30/1946 NARA-Author Iwasaki Hikaru 1923- Photographer 8464103 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 10/1945 Record group Record Group 210 Records of the War Relocation Authority 1941 - 1989 Record group ARC 537 Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority compiled 1942 - 1945 Series ARC 536000 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-210-G-K416 Other versions <gallery> File Granada_Relocation_Center _Amache _Colorado _A_section_of_the_Amache_Relocation_Center_at_Granada _ _ _ _-_NARA_-_539937 tif tif File Granada_Relocation_Center _Amache _Colorado _A_section_of_the_Amache_Relocation_Center_at_Granada _ _ _ _-_NARA_-_539937 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Hikaru Iwasaki | ||||
