ABOUT THE MINIDOKA WAR RELOCATION CENTER

• Opened Aug. 10, 1942

• Closed Oct. 28, 1945

• Housed 9,370 Japanese-Americans and Japanese immigrants at its peak

• Largest of 10 internment camps for people of Japanese ancestry

• Seventh-largest population center in Idaho at the time

• Added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 1979

• Administration and residential areas took up about 950 acres, surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers

Source: National Park Service