Fresno Assembly Center
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brwhiz
N 36° 43.890 W 119° 45.043
11S E 254367 N 4068615
The Fresno Assembly Center, on the Fresno Fairgrounds, was a temporary internment camp for Japanese-Americans during the middle of 1942.
Waymark Code: WMJDFZ
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/03/2013
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From the National park Service web site:
The Fresno Assembly Center was located at the Fresno County Fairgrounds. Occupied from May 6 to October 30, 1942, it was the last assembly center to close. It held a total of 5,344 evacuees (with a maximum of 5,120 at a time) from the central San Joaquin Valley and Amador County. Over 100 barracks served by six sets of communal buildings were located within the infield of the fairgrounds racetrack, and four contiguous blocks with 20 barracks each were located adjacent to the fairgrounds.
The Historical Marker on the Fairgrounds reads:
Fresno Assembly Center
This memorial is dedicated to over 5,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry who were confined at the Fresno Fairgrounds from May to October 1942. This was an early phase of the mass incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II pursuant to Executive Order 9066. They were detained without charges, trial or establishment of guilt. May such injustice and suffering never recur.