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Bookmark or Share- Amache National Historic Site Formally Established as America’s Newest ...Amache was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 18, 1994, and designated a National Historic Landmark on February 10, 2006. The National Park Service will continue to work with the groups to preserve Amache and expand scholarship and public awareness of its history.
- History & Culture - Amache National Historic Site (U.S. National Park ...Built to accommodate up to 8,000 people, Amache housed 7,318 Japanese Americans at its peak in 1943. It was the 10th largest population center in Colorado at the time. During its three years of operation, 10,331 people passed through Amache.
- A Japanese American Incarceration Camp in ... - Smithsonian MagazineAmerica officially has a new national park: Amache National Historic Site. During World War II, the site in rural southeastern Colorado was an incarceration camp for Japanese Americans.
- Amache National Historic Site - WikipediaAmache 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.
- Amache National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)Amache, also known as the Granada Relocation Center, near Granada, Colorado was one of ten incarceration sites established by the War Relocation Authority during World War II to unjustly incarcerate Japanese Americans.
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