Hunt (Minidoka War Relocation Camp)-Hunt ID
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Don.Morfe
N 42° 40.740 W 114° 14.640
11T E 725810 N 4728852
Excluded from their west coast homes by military authorities, more than 9000 Japanese Americans occupied Hunt Relocation Camp between 1942 & 1945. It became Idaho’s largest ghost town.
Waymark Code: WM15NZH
Location: Idaho, United States
Date Posted: 01/31/2022
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Hunt (Relocation Camp) Minidoka Internment National Monument-Hunt ID-
NOW Minidoka National Historic Site.
TEXT on Historical Marker
Excluded from their west coast homes by military authorities, more than 9000 Japanese Americans occupied Hunt Relocation Camp 4 miles north of here between 1942 & 1945.
Until they could resettle in other places, they live in wartime tarpaper barracks in a dusty desert, where they helped meet a local farm labor crisis, planting and harvesting crops. Finally a 1945 Supreme Court decision held that United States citizens no longer could be confined that way, and their camp became Idaho’s largest ghost town.
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