A Look Back In Time
Where you now see cotton fields, 432 barracks once housed about 8,000 Japanese Americans.
The Camp was surrounded by a barbed wire fence linking eight guard towers from which armed guards watched the camp and internees. The cam was divided by purpose, internee barracks, schools, military police (outside the fence), open areas, hospital, and administration. The brick smoke stack in the distance marks the northern border of the camp and the hospital grounds.
Each internee barracks block included twelve housing barracks for three to six families, a lavatory and laundry building, a kitchen and dining building and a recreational building. There were thirty-six internee barracks blocks in the camp, housing up to 8,000 people at a time.
Erected by Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant administered by the National Park Service, Department of Interior, and Arkansas State University.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Asian Americans • Civil Rights • War, World II.
Location. 33° 46′ N, 91° 16.927′ W. Marker is in Rohwer, Arkansas, in Desha
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Regionally, this marker is in the Arkansas Delta, in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, and in the Quapaw Homeland. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, in the Upper South, in the Mississippi Delta, in the Piney Woods, and in the Great River Road Region. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Viceroyalty of New France, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, the Louisiana Purchase, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Trying To Make A Home (within shouting distance of this marker); Making A Living (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Rohwer Internment Camp Veterans Memorial (about 700 feet away); We Lived & Died Here
Credits. This page was last revised on April 4, 2021. It was originally submitted on April 4, 2021, by Cajun Scrambler of Assumption, Louisiana. This page has been viewed 503 times since then and 23 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on April 4, 2021, by Cajun Scrambler of Assumption, Louisiana.
