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| A relocation center for nearly 10,000 Japanese Americans who were imprisoned here during World War II. This is one of several internment camps in the Southwest, which in total confined about 100,000 people of Japanese descent, from 1941 (Pearl Harbor), to 1944, when it was deemed unconstitutional to hold them captive any longer. Buildings at the site have been removed except for two stone guard houses and a meeting hall. The site is slowly being transformed into a public historic site, and a looped driving tour passes by the concrete pads and other slight ruins of the hundreds of buildings that once stood on the site. The graveyard has a large commemorative monument. |
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| Accessible to the public. Located on the west side of Highway 395, between Independence and Lone Pine, in the Owens Valley. The Central California Museum in nearby Independence has some displays on Manzanar. |
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| 90 miles N of Los Angeles, 6 miles S of Independence |
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http://www.manzanar.com/
http://www.nps.gov/manz/
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