Hunt (Relocation Camp)-Hunt ID
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Don.Morfe
N 42° 39.744 W 114° 17.106
11T E 722501 N 4726899
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.
Waymark Code: WM11PM7
Location: Idaho, United States
Date Posted: 11/27/2019
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Hunt (Relocation Camp) Minidoka Internment National Monument-Hunt ID-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.
Group that erected the marker: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Hunt Road
Hunt, ID USA
83338
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: Not listed
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