Hunt in Jerome County, Idaho — The American West (Mountains)
Minidoka Relocation Center
August 16, 1942 to October 26, 1945
Photographed By Don Morfe, June 26, 2009
1. Minidoka Relocation Center Marker
Left side of marker
Inscription.
Minidoka Relocation Center. August 16, 1942 to October 26, 1945. You are standing at the entrance area of the Minidoka Relocation Center, one of ten American concentration camps established in World War II to incarcerate the 110,000 Americans of Japanese decent in coastal regions off our Pacific states.
Here 10,000 Japanese American victims of war-time hysteria occupied a 950-acre camp, living a bleak, humiliating life in tarpaper barracks, behind barbed wire and under armed guard.
May these camps serve to remind us what can happen when other factors supersede the constitutional rights guaranteed to all citizens and aliens living in this country.
In front of you stands the waiting room, which was often filled with visitors anxious to see and give support to friends and family restricted to life within the camp. To your left stand the guard house where all movement in and out of the Relocation Center was monitored.
You are standing at the entrance area of the Minidoka Relocation Center, one of ten American concentration camps established in World War II to incarcerate the 110,000 Americans of Japanese decent in coastal regions off our Pacific states.
Here 10,000 Japanese American victims of war-time hysteria occupied a 950-acre camp, living a bleak, humiliating life in tarpaper barracks, behind barbed wire and under armed guard.
May these camps serve to remind us what can happen when other factors supersede the constitutional rights guaranteed to all citizens and aliens living in this country.
In front of you stands the waiting room, which was often filled with visitors anxious to see and give support to friends and family restricted to life within the camp. To your left stand the guard house where all movement in and out of the Relocation Center was monitored.
Location. 42° 40.674′ N, 114° 15.066′ W. Marker is in Hunt, Idaho, in Jerome County. Marker is on Hunt Road, 0.2 miles west of S1400E. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Jerome ID 83338, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking
Photos from the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument Visitor Center
Photographed By Don Morfe, June 27, 2009
8. Minidoka Relocation Center Marker
Photographed By Don Morfe, June 27, 2009
9. Minidoka Relocation Center Marker
Photographed By Don Morfe, June 27, 2009
10. Minidoka Relocation Center Marker
Photographed By Don Morfe, June 27, 2009
11. Minidoka Relocation Center Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on February 2, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 718 times since then and 9 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on February 2, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. submitted on February 3, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
