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Amache National Historic Site
NRHP reference No.
94000425
[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
May 18, 1994[1]
Designated NHL
February 10, 2006[2]
Designated NHS
March 18, 2022
The Amache National Historic Site, formally the Granada War Relocation Center but known to the internees as Camp Amache (pronounced a-ma-chee), was a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Prowers County, Colorado. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese Americans on the West Coast were rounded up and sent to remote camps. Among the inmates, the notation "亜町 (Amachi)" was sometimes applied.[citation needed]
The camp, located 1.3 miles (2.1 km) southwest of the small farming community of Granada, south of U.S. Highway 50,[3] was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 18, 1994, and designated a National Historic Landmark on February 10, 2006.[2][4] On March 18, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Amache National Historic Site Act[5] authorizing the Granada War Relocation Center to become part of the National Park System.[6] It was formally established as part of the National Park Service on February 15, 2024,[7] the third National Historic Site in Colorado after Bent's Old Fort and the Sand Creek Massacre.
^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ ab"Granada Relocation Center". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 5, 2008. Retrieved October 16, 2007.
^Cite error: The named reference SI was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Thomas H Simmons; R. Laurie Simmons (August 2004). "National Historic Landmark Nomination: Granada Relocation Center / Camp Amache / Amache/5PW48" (PDF). National Park Service. and Accompanying photos, exterior and interior, from 19 and 19. (32 KB)
^"Amache National Historic Site Act". 117th United States Congress. March 18, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
^"President Biden Designates Amache National Historic Site as America's Newest National Park". United States Department of the Interior. March 18, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
^"Amache National Historic Site Formally Established as America's Newest National Park - Office of Communications (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
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