Minidoka Internment National Monument |
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Hunt Rd Jerome, ID 83338(208) 933-4105 |
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Though there are no centers and few explanatory signs, the Minidoka Internment National Monument is an important piece of American history, having served as one of the sites that held individuals displaced by the largest forced relocation in national history. Occurring after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Minidoka camp was one of ten such remote locations that were created to isolate and manage some 120,000 Japanese descendants living on the West Coast during a time of irrational racial fear and hostility. Currently, the site is very bare bones, with facilities located at the nearby Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, but the ruins of remaining structures and the commemorative plaques are forceful and haunting reminders of this controversial and historically embarrassing time.
Open daily dawn - dusk.
Free.
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