Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
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Heart Mountain Relocation Camp (Wyo.) United States. Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming United States. War Relocation Authority. Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming
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Sources
found: Its Charter of the Heart Mountain ... 1983: t.p. (Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming) prelim. p. 7, etc. (a WW II Japanese internment camp established under Executive Order 9102 to be directed by the War Relocation Authority created by the same order; peak population of more than 12,000; Heart Mountain Relocation Camp) p. 1 (charter preamble: We, the residents of Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming, composed of American citizens of Japanese ancestry, alien Japanese, and other racial groups ...)
found: LC data base, 3-21-86 (hdgs.: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyo.; Heart Mountain Relocation Center)
found: NUCMC data from Japanese American National Museum for Norman Y. Mineta papers, 1975-1996 (Heart Mountain was the site of one of 10 concentration camps that housed Japanese Americans forcibly removed from the West Coast states during World War II; it was located in northwestern Wyoming, in Park County, 13 miles northeast of Cody; Heart Mountain opened on Aug. 12, 1942 and closed Nov. 10, 1945)
Change Notes
1986-03-26: new
2006-01-06: revised
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