Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A section of the Amache Relocation Center at Granada, . . . - NARA - 539940

Scope and content: The full caption for this photograph reads: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A section of the Amache Relocation Center at Granada, Colorado as it looks today. The trees were planted by the evacuees to provide shade on the sandy, sun baked soil on which the center was erected. Temperatures of 120 and higher are not uncommon. A total of nearly 15,000 evacuees were inducted into the Granada Project, Amache, Colorado, since August 27, 1942, when the first group arrived from the Merced Assembly Center to prepare the camp for those to follow. The Relocation Center, as its name implies, was a temporary residence for those of Japanese ancestry who were transferred from their homes along the west coast under a war emergency measure of 1942. Many of the evacuees during the past three years were able to resettle and find new homes in the Middle West and eastern states. From September 1, 1945, to the closing date of October 15, 3,105 persons have gone back to their former homes or have relocated elsewhere. The last to leave the center a group of 126, left on two special coaches for Sacramento and nearby towns. At the peak of its population, Amache had 7,567 residents. 412 births were recorded and 107 deaths during the three years of its existence.