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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PRI_relocation-center-support-facilities_Powell-WY.html
As you look through the site glass, you see the hill where the water reservoir stood. Across Highway 14A was the water treatment plant and adjacent to the military police complex was the sewage treatment plant. Directly across the intersection in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PR5_heart-mountain-high-school_Powell-WY.html
As you look through the site glass, you see a concrete records vault, the only remnant of the high school that stood on this ground.
In early August 1942, the Heart Mountain project director hired Clifford D. Carter as superintendent and John …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PQS_heart-mountain-world-war-ii-memorial_Powell-WY.html
September 1985
This memorial plaque is dedicated to the more than 750 internees who left Heart Mountain to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, and to the memory of the 15 Heart Mountaineers who gave their live for our country. …
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History
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, many parts of the West Coast were declared military defense zones. The government ordered the removal of all persons of Japanese ancestry and the War Relocation Authority was es…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PQ8_swimming-hole_Powell-WY.html
As you look through the site glass, you see the camp swimming hole. After an internee Boy Scout drowned while swimming in the canal during the summer of 1943, the Administration ordered a large pit excavated just below the canal. The pit was lined…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PQ7_administrative-area_Powell-WY.html
In front of you stood the Administration Area which consisted of an H shaped Administration building, a small building to the right of the Administration building for the Block Managers Community Council offices, and a building to the south for th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PPW_heart-mountain-wyoming-fall-1943_Powell-WY.html
Rooted in decades of anti-Japanese and anti-Asian prejudice, the internment of 120,000 Nisei, American citizens of Japanese descent, and Issei, Japanese resident aliens, was triggered by the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Dec. 7, 1941.
Initiatives…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PPU_hospital-complex_Powell-WY.html
Directly in front of you was the hospital complex. The structures remaining are the boiler house and chimney, two slabs that were warehouse foundations, one building that was the kitchen and dining room, and one building that was the ambulance off…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PPT_m-p-station-guard-tower-rail-train-station_Powell-WY.html
As you look through the site glass, to the left of the intersection of Highway 14A and Road 19 stood the Military Police complex and one of the guard towers. On the right side of Road 19 were the main gate and the train station. The Chicago, Burli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PPS_agriculture-and-root-cellars_Powell-WY.html
As you look through the site glass, you will see the only remaining root cellar of the original three. It is on private land and may not be visited. The evacuees cultivated farmland north of the living area, across the highway to the south and sou…