Manzanar (Spanish for "apple orchard") was a town in Inyo County, California, founded by water engineer and land developer George Chaffey. Most notably...
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Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from...
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National Forest Los Angeles Aqueduct Manzanar, California Mount Whitney "2010 Census Gazetteer Files - Places - California". census.gov. United States Census...
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Farewell to Manzanar is a memoir published in 1973 by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. The book describes the experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki...
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Ansel Adams (category People from Monterey County, California)
from Manzanar, California, 1944". Land and Lens. Retrieved May 6, 2022. "Ansel Adams. Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California. 1944...
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orchard in the Spanish language, plural manzanares) may also refer to: Manzanar, California, former settlement and agricultural area Manzanares may refer to:...
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(Merced County Fairgrounds – Merced Assembly Center) Owens Valley, California (Manzanar – Owens Valley Reception Center) Parker Dam, Arizona – (Poston War...
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George Chaffey (category Ontario, California)
Jeffery F. (1996). Three Farewells To Manzanar: The Archeology of Manzanar National Historic Site, California. Part 1: Chapters 1–14. Western Archaeological...
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Eastern California including the Manzanar internment camp and the historical Carson and Colorado Railway. The easternmost counties of California are (from...
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Coast of the United States. Contained within the Manzanar concentration camp in Owens Valley, California, it held a total of 101 orphans from June 1942...
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The Manzanar Guayule Project began in April 1942, in the Manzanar internment camp. The objective of the project was to produce a domestic source of rubber...
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Tokyo Boyz (category Gangs in California)
The Tokyo Boys was a Japanese American gang founded in Manzanar Concentration camp during World War II. They were split into three groups/ranks, The Kibei...
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California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east...
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This is a list of inmates of Manzanar, an American concentration camp in California used during World War II to hold people of Japanese descent. Koji Ariyoshi...
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The documentary is about a fishing club at Manzanar, which was located in the Owens River Valley in California. Fishermen imprisoned in the camp realized...
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Come See the Paradise (category Films set in Inyo County, California)
caught up in the Japanese American internment, rounded up and sent to Manzanar, California. Jack, away on a trip, is drafted into the United States Army with...
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Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga (category Activists from California)
As a young woman, Herzig-Yoshinaga was confined in the Manzanar Concentration Camp in California, the Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas, and the...
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Harry Ueno (category Trade unionists from California)
義雄, 1907-2004) was a Japanese-American union leader who was interned in Manzanar Concentration Camp. He rose to prominence when he was arrested and removed...
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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (category People from Inglewood, California)
Farewell to Manzanar that narrates her personal experiences in World War II internment camps. Houston was born in Inglewood, California, on September...
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Charlotte Burgis DeForest (category People from Claremont, California)
Pomona College and eventually began working at the Manzanar Relocation Center in Manzanar, California. After the end of World War II, DeForest returned...
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Mount Williamson (category Fourteeners of California)
Adams: Classic Images". Mount Williamson, The Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1945. Housatonic Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 2007-05-08...
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Dennis M. Ogawa (category University of California, Los Angeles alumni)
September 7, 1943, to Frank and Alice Ogawa while they were interned in Manzanar Relocation Center in Owen's Valley, one of ten Japanese American internment...
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"Chronomedia: 1942". Terra Media. Retrieved February 1, 2016. "Manzanar, California". Japanese American Veterans Association. Retrieved February 1, 2016...
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were sent to the Turlock Assembly Center at the Stanislaus County Fair, Manzanar War Relocation Center, and the Gila River War Relocation Center. Accounts...
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Eastern Sierra Owens Valley Manzanar Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery "2010 Census U.S. Gazetteer Files – Places – California". United States Census Bureau...
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National Historic Site". National Park Service. Retrieved October 11, 2021. "Manzanar National Historic Site". National Park Service. Retrieved October 11, 2021...
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announced that the army had acquired 5,800 acres (23 km2) of land near Manzanar, California, for construction of a "reception center" which he said was "to be...
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Gordon H. Sato (category California Institute of Technology alumni)
to move to the Manzanar relocation camp for internment of Japanese Americans in the Owens Desert of California. He attended Manzanar High School in the...
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Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States. It is about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe...
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Eastern Sierra (redirect from California Eastern Sierra)
scenery; major points of interest include Mono Lake, Bodie, Mammoth Lakes, Manzanar, Mount Whitney and parts of Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park...
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